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BANGLADESH: NGO ban hurting undocumented Rohingya

COX’S BAZAR, 17 December 2012 (IRIN) - Some 40,000 undocumented Rohingya refugees are being adversely affected by a government ban four months ago on NGOs working at two makeshift sites in southeastern Bangladesh.  “If we get some rice, we eat. Otherwise, we don’t eat,” Anowara Begum, an undocumented Rohingya refugee and 40-year-old mother-of-four at the Leda makeshift camp outside Nayapara, one of two makeshift sites outside two official government camps for Rohingya refugees told IRIN.  

Shopkeeper arrested by police in Maungdaw

Large mosque in Alel Than Kyaw, Maungdaw Township Photo Credit: Nora Rowley Maungdaw, Arakan State:  A Rohingya shopkeeper was arrested by police of Aley Than Kyaw police station yesterday for opening his shop in the market, said a local trader. “He was arrested from the market of Aley Than Kyaw while he was going to his home at noon for having lunch after closing his shop.”