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Lives of Rohingya ‘Better’ in Bangladesh Camps than Myanmar, UN Official Says
Mahbub Leelen and Kate Beddall
Washington
2020-03-11


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Rohingya refugee girl Azida plays on a makeshift swing tied to World Food Program (WFP) containers inside Balukhali refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Nov. 17, 2018.


The largest refugee settlement in the world is a “vibrant” place where the lives of Rohingya Muslims are “in some ways better” than they were in Myanmar, the World Food Program’s representative in Bangladesh told BenarNews in a recent interview.

Richard Ragan heads an operation that supplies all food delivered to Rohingya refugees in southeastern Bangladesh, spending about $11 million per month on the effort.

WFP fed 878,032 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh in January, according to its most recent country brief. It also pays thousands of refugees daily to provide services in what Ragan described as “one of the most sophisticated camp structures I’ve ever seen.”

“It’s very vibrant. It’s alive,” Ragan said of Kutupalong Refugee Camp.

“Rohingya will tell you, for the first time in their life, they feel free, they are able to worship, they are able to move … the situations that brought them there are clearly not good, but the end state of it is, their life in some ways is better,” he said.

Ragan, who lives in Dhaka, was in Washington last week to discuss budgeting, policy and programming with officials in the United States, the biggest donor to the WFP and Bangladesh for the Rohingya operation.

The United Nations last week launched an appeal for more than $800 million this year to support some 855,000 Rohingya refugees and 444,000 Bangladeshis in host communities in southeastern Bangladesh.

On March 3, Washington donated $59 million, bringing its total humanitarian assistance to Rohingya refugees and related communities in Bangladesh to almost $820 million since August 2017, when an outbreak of violence by Myanmar security forces sent around 800,000 fleeing across the border, the State Department said.

In his March 4 interview with BenarNews, Ragan provided a close look at how that money is spent, and an unusually positive depiction of life in the refugee camps.

BenarNews: What are the top concerns of WFP Bangladesh?

Richard Ragan: My top concerns are trying to get people to go back home … to try to work to create conditions on the other side of the border which will attract people to return home …

We take care of a quarter million people on the Rakhine side as well, we are one of the biggest humanitarian actors on the other side of the border, so we have a good sense of what’s happening in Myanmar as well as what I see in Bangladesh.

BN: What is your assessment?

RR: Conditions aren’t ripe for people to return. There’s been an uptick in violence over the last couple of months … people don’t see the stability that they need to make decisions to go home.

The Rohingya crisis has been with Bangladesh since its independence, it’s not a new crisis. … There’s been a consistent effort on the Myanmar side to push people out. And there remain 600,000 Rohingya still, on the other side of the border, which we are obviously concerned about – their welfare, the security issues they face, the potential that they might be pushed out to Bangladesh in the future.

BN: How do you feed the Rohingya in Bangladesh?

RR: If you look back at big refugee crises of 20 years ago, you provided [on site] handouts of grain, pulses, oil … [in a] crisis-like environment, with big queues of people lining up.

What we are doing in Bangladesh is different. … We have, basically, stores where we give Rohingyas a digital entitlement of the equivalent to $7 per person ... per month. Then they can go to shops and they can purchase one of 19 different food items; fresh vegetables, fish, eggs, things that you normally wouldn’t see in a traditional refugee environment.

The other benefit about this is, these are Bangladeshi business people that are managing the supply chain. We have contracts with businesses based locally in the Cox’s Bazar area and some of the other contractors are in Chittagong and from Dhaka. They are providing the commodities.

We are transacting roughly the equivalent of $6 million per month through these stores, so it’s a big business opportunity for people who are involved in this.

BN: All of this food is being produced by Bangladeshi farmers?

RR: Yes.

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Richard Ragan, the resident representative for World Food Program Bangladesh, gestures during an interview with BenarNews in Washington, March 4, 2020. [Ashif Entaz Rabi/BenarNews]


BN: Do you have a plan for food production inside the camps?

RR: The [Bangladesh] government has restricted work and employment, because there is desire to not hurt the competitive market for the host community, so officially, jobs aren’t allowed.

But you have to manage the camps. This is a city of a million people, basically … you have to have all the different structures in place to manage the city, which means drainage of the roads, cleaning out the toilets, slope stabilization of land...

So the way we have done that is, rather than call them employees, they are volunteers. They get a volunteer stipend ….

In WFP, we probably have around 10 to 12 thousand volunteers doing labor for us on a daily basis, so we manage a pretty big work force ... both men and women.

Rohingya will tell you, for the first time in their life they feel free, they are able to worship, they are able to move, they are able to go into these stores and shop, which is something that they weren’t allowed to do in Rakhine. So, they’re stateless, pushed out of their home, and suffered genocide. The situations that brought them there are clearly not good, but the end state of it is, their life in some ways is better.

There isn’t a Rohingya that you speak to who doesn’t want to go home. I think if given the choice of saying, stay in the camp and go to the e-voucher shop versus go home, they are going to all say ‘I want to go home.’ But those conditions don’t exist yet. So you do the best with what you’ve got.

BN: What is your opinion about relocating Rohingya to Bhasan Char Island?

RR: It is going to be more expensive, because anytime you divide the population, you put a population on an island, for us to manage it, it’s going to be more costly.

BN: Are you seeing hunger in communities around the refugee camps?

RR: Yes.

BN: What are the impacts of the Rohingya presence on the host community?

RR: It’s crowded. There’s a whole lot of new people, the size of two districts [where the camps are located] quadrupled. It’s in an environment that has always been under-developed, under-invested in. … I view it really as an opportunity in a lot of ways, because there’s a lot of investment being made into these two districts’ infrastructure, a lot more attention being made on some of the longer-term development challenges.

BN: With all these things in place, isn’t it a disincentive for repatriation?

RR: You know, the pull to go to your place of origin is strong and there’s still 600,000 people on the other side of the border. This has been historically where these people are from. I think they’d go back if the conditions were safe enough, and they were given the kind of liberties to live the kind of life that they would want to live.

BN: In your assessment, when will they be going back?

RR: I don’t see a lot of daylight at this point.

One of the things that’s really important is to hold Myanmar accountable. We, the international community, can’t let people forget what happened. … There’s nobody in these camps that doesn’t have a story of something terrible happening to them.

Ashif Entaz Rabi contributed to this report.

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Rohingya influx feared again, border on alert

Fears have arisen of yet another influx of Rohingya from Myanmar into Bangladesh. Local residents and people’s representatives said that there are over 150 Rohingyas positioned at the borders of Teknaf and Ukhia. The Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) is on alert.

Announcements to this end were made over loudspeaker along the border on Thursday night.

Union Parishad (UP) member of Palongkhali union, Ukhia, Sultan Ahmed, said that they were contacted on Thursday night by a government agency on duty at the border. They were told that quite a few Rohingyas might be attempting to cross over the border into Bangladesh.

Upon hearing this, the UP member along with others took position at the Paishkhali border towards 11 in the night. They could hear noises of people in the forest on the other side of the border. It confirmed their suspicions of a possible attempt by Rohingyas to enter Bangladesh.

The local people learnt that a certain terrorist group was trying to bring these Rohingyas into Bangladesh. However, after being tipped off, everyone in the area was on alert. The people were cautioned over loudspeaker at night in this regard. It was learnt that many of the Rohingyas who had gathered at the border were infected with coronavirus.

Palongkhali UP chairman Gafur Uddin Chowdhury, speaking to Prothom Alo, said that he had learnt that over 150 Rohingyas were attempting to enter Bangladesh through Medhir Khal border at Anjumanpara. About the matter, he had spoken to the BGB personnel deployed at the border. They were on alert. No Rohingyas would be allowed to enter illegally.

Learning that many of the Rohingyas may be infected with coronavirus, the UP chairman said they had learnt that they were trying to come to Bangladesh for treatment.

After 25 August 2017, hordes of Rohingyas had entered Bangladesh through the Teknaf and Ukhia borders. Around 1.15 million Rohingyas had settled in Teknaf and Ukhia since then. Myanmar has spoken about taking them back at various times, but till now has not done so.

Commander of BGB’s 34 battalion in Cox’s Bazar, Lt Col Ali Haider Azad Ahmed, told Prothom Alo that BGB men had been sent to the border at Anjumanpara and Ulubania and that no one would be allowed to enter. BGB is keeping sharp watch at these areas. No one has been spotted in these areas.

Ukhia upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) Mohammed Nikaruzzaman Chowdhury and Teknaf UNO Mohammed Saiful Islam, said that at night there had suddenly been reports that Rohingyas were trying to enter Bangladesh at the borders of the two upazilas. However, the border guards were in alert and so, they hoped, no one would be able to enter.
 
Muslim blood is the most cheapest thing in this world.
Munafiq/Hypocrite/Athiest rulers, Secular/Liberal dictators and rulers sold out to Zionists n Crusaders are ruling the Muslim Ummah divided into Un-Islamic Nation States.
Only a true Khilafah as dictated in Islamic teachings and o erthrow of above mention Ed rulers is the only solution and can save Muslim from these atrocities worldwide.
 
Muslim blood is the most cheapest thing in this world.
Munafiq/Hypocrite/Athiest rulers, Secular/Liberal dictators and rulers sold out to Zionists n Crusaders are ruling the Muslim Ummah divided into Un-Islamic Nation States.
Only a true Khilafah as dictated in Islamic teachings and o erthrow of above mention Ed rulers is the only solution and can save Muslim from these atrocities worldwide.
Your proposed remedy could have not been good even a thousand years ago. Today, Muslim countries must salvage themselves by learning knowledge/technology from the Christians, industrializing and doing economic development.

Christians do not want this to happen and this is the reason they have been propagating some fancy Khilafat ideas through ignoramus Muslims. They have been doing it for the last few centuries because they know religious dogma is an effective medicine for the Muslims to keep themselves asleep.
 
Your proposed remedy could have not been good even a thousand years ago. Today, Muslim countries must salvage themselves by learning knowledge/technology from the Christians, industrializing and doing economic development.

Christians do not want this to happen and this is the reason they have been propagating some fancy Khilafat ideas through ignoramus Muslims. They have been doing it for the last few centuries because they know religious dogma is an effective medicine for the Muslims to keep themselves asleep.
Khilafah was there till 1924 though not in its pure form but to some extent it was the protector of Muslim Ummah as a whole from Crusaders, Muslims could have moved and settled anywhere in that land from any other part of the world, nobody dared to create Israel or a Jewish homeland even Sultan Abdul Hamid's period who was the last Sultan of Ottoman and the weakest one.
Thousand years ago it was much stronger though it kept changing hands and the rulers were not fully following the footsteps of an Islamic Khilafah as it should have been followed.
As per scholars its wajib for a Muslim to live in a Khilafa instead of in Dar al Harb. Khilafah is not formed by any Muslim king or Dictator. It was from Allah as Islam is the way of life. Otherwise Corrupt, Faasiq, Faajirs and Munaafiq rulers as likes of Hasina in Bangladesh, likes of Nawaz & Zardari in Pakistan, Secular, Atheist or Munafiq ruler prior to Erdogan in Turkey and many more around the world will keep appearing.
Secondly only a believing Muslim will like and hope of living in Khilafah and not an unbeliever or Atheist among Muslims.
A real Khalifah will definitely take the Ummah towards achieving knowledge n technology as he will not be any sold out person but follower of Quranic commands and Sunnah.
BTW, In sha Allah the final Khilafah will emerge soon as we are in the period of End Times and the prophecy in a hadith of 5 eras nearing.


قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ تَكُونُ النُّبُوَّةُ فِيكُمْ مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ أَنْ تَكُونَ ثُمَّ يَرْفَعُهَا إِذَا شَاءَ أَنْ يَرْفَعَهَا ثُمَّ تَكُونُ خِلَافَةٌ عَلَى مِنْهَاجِ النُّبُوَّةِ فَتَكُونُ مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ أَنْ تَكُونَ ثُمَّ يَرْفَعُهَا إِذَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ أَنْ يَرْفَعَهَا ثُمَّ تَكُونُ مُلْكًا عَاضًّا فَيَكُونُ مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ أَنْ يَكُونَ ثُمَّ يَرْفَعُهَا إِذَا شَاءَ أَنْ يَرْفَعَهَا ثُمَّ تَكُونُ مُلْكًا جَبْرِيَّةً فَتَكُونُ مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ أَنْ تَكُونَ ثُمَّ يَرْفَعُهَا إِذَا شَاءَ أَنْ يَرْفَعَهَا ثُمَّ تَكُونُ خِلَافَةً عَلَى مِنْهَاجِ النُّبُوَّةِ ثُمَّ سَكَتَ مسند أحمد (30/ 355).

On the authority of Hudhayfa, the Prophet said: ‘There will be (an era of) Prophethood, so long as Allah wills. Then Allah will withdraw it, when He wills to withdraw it, to be followed by (an era of) Khilafah on the lines of Prophethood. It will last as long as Allah wills; then Allah will withdraw it when He wills to withdraw it. Then there will be despotic monarchy and stay as long as Allah wills. Then Allah will withdraw it when He wishes to withdraw it. That will be followed by a tyrannous monarchy which will last as long as Allah wills. Then Allah will withdraw it when He wills to withdraw it. That will be followed by (an era of) Khilafah on the lines of Prophethood. Thereafter he did not speak any further.’
 
Khilafah was there till 1924 though not in its pure form but to some extent it was the protector of Muslim Ummah as a whole from Crusaders, Muslims could have moved and settled anywhere in that land from any other part of the world, nobody dared to create Israel or a Jewish homeland even Sultan Abdul Hamid's period who was the last Sultan of Ottoman and the weakest one.
Thousand years ago it was much stronger though it kept changing hands and the rulers were not fully following the footsteps of an Islamic Khilafah as it should have been followed.
As per scholars its wajib for a Muslim to live in a Khilafa instead of in Dar al Harb. Khilafah is not formed by any Muslim king or Dictator. It was from Allah as Islam is the way of life. Otherwise Corrupt, Faasiq, Faajirs and Munaafiq rulers as likes of Hasina in Bangladesh, likes of Nawaz & Zardari in Pakistan, Secular, Atheist or Munafiq ruler prior to Erdogan in Turkey and many more around the world will keep appearing.
Secondly only a believing Muslim will like and hope of living in Khilafah and not an unbeliever or Atheist among Muslims.
A real Khalifah will definitely take the Ummah towards achieving knowledge n technology as he will not be any sold out person but follower of Quranic commands and Sunnah.
BTW, In sha Allah the final Khilafah will emerge soon as we are in the period of End Times and the prophecy in a hadith of 5 eras nearing.


قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ تَكُونُ النُّبُوَّةُ فِيكُمْ مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ أَنْ تَكُونَ ثُمَّ يَرْفَعُهَا إِذَا شَاءَ أَنْ يَرْفَعَهَا ثُمَّ تَكُونُ خِلَافَةٌ عَلَى مِنْهَاجِ النُّبُوَّةِ فَتَكُونُ مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ أَنْ تَكُونَ ثُمَّ يَرْفَعُهَا إِذَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ أَنْ يَرْفَعَهَا ثُمَّ تَكُونُ مُلْكًا عَاضًّا فَيَكُونُ مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ أَنْ يَكُونَ ثُمَّ يَرْفَعُهَا إِذَا شَاءَ أَنْ يَرْفَعَهَا ثُمَّ تَكُونُ مُلْكًا جَبْرِيَّةً فَتَكُونُ مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ أَنْ تَكُونَ ثُمَّ يَرْفَعُهَا إِذَا شَاءَ أَنْ يَرْفَعَهَا ثُمَّ تَكُونُ خِلَافَةً عَلَى مِنْهَاجِ النُّبُوَّةِ ثُمَّ سَكَتَ مسند أحمد (30/ 355).

On the authority of Hudhayfa, the Prophet said: ‘There will be (an era of) Prophethood, so long as Allah wills. Then Allah will withdraw it, when He wills to withdraw it, to be followed by (an era of) Khilafah on the lines of Prophethood. It will last as long as Allah wills; then Allah will withdraw it when He wills to withdraw it. Then there will be despotic monarchy and stay as long as Allah wills. Then Allah will withdraw it when He wishes to withdraw it. That will be followed by a tyrannous monarchy which will last as long as Allah wills. Then Allah will withdraw it when He wills to withdraw it. That will be followed by (an era of) Khilafah on the lines of Prophethood. Thereafter he did not speak any further.’
You better join ISIS and establish a Khilafat. Do not forget Israel and America are behind the funding of that criminal organization. That ISIS Khelafat never sent a bullet towards Israel but killed many thousand Muslims. So, why are you sending trash message in the PDF instead of joining your Khilafat?

Long Live ISIS Khilafat.
 
Ummah strong!


Bangladeshis who believe in ummah chummah should be ashamed of themselves, we bangalis should be the last persons to believe in that delusional ideology.


Ummah this, Ummah that, pffffft.

Grow up folks, we got enough ummah ummah in 71.
 
Ummah strong!


Bangladeshis who believe in ummah chummah should be ashamed of themselves, we bangalis should be the last persons to believe in that delusional ideology.


Ummah this, Ummah that, pffffft.

Grow up folks, we got enough ummah ummah in 71.
Die hard Ummahs will love to remain an ignoramus mass for all time to come. Muslims remain backward because of their stupid mindset. However you tell or teach them, they are not to learn how to progress to the future. You can watch hundreds of videos talking backdated Mojezas, and many hundreds clapping by seeing these.
 
You better join ISIS and establish a Khilafat. Do not forget Israel and America are behind the funding of that criminal organization. That ISIS Khelafat never sent a bullet towards Israel but killed many thousand Muslims. So, why are you sending trash message in the PDF instead of joining your Khilafat?

Long Live ISIS Khilafat.
Do you have brain or not. Why you are mixing Khilafah with Khawarij of ISIS?
Did I talked about or supported ISIS Khilafah. I just talked about institution of Islamic Khilafah which is a requirement of Ummah as per Quran n Sunnah.
Better you join ISIS or any hypocrite or atheist ideology gang.
 
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