Tag Archives: Bangladesh

Nationality + Migration

Bangladesh News | Japanese

Japanese man killed by unidentified gunmen in northern Bangladesh
  • Bangladesh-born Kunio Hoshi, 65, was murdered in the district of Rangpur after being stopped on his rickshaw by three men on a motorcycle.
  • Four men were detained for questioning for killing Hoshi as authorities investigated the regional Islamic State affiliate’s claim of responsibility for the attack.
  • Following the similar death of an Italian national days earlier, international embassies began issuing alerts and international groups and schools in the country began restricting their activities.

Read more:
“4 detained over Japanese national murder” (Dhaka Tribune)
“Japanese man shot dead in Bangladesh; Islamic State link probed” (The Japan Times/Reuters)
“Second foreigner killed in Bangladesh” (The Guardian)
“Hoshi murder: US urges quick probe; Japan, S Korea issue alert” (Dhaka Tribune)

(Image Credit: Ripon Islam/AP, via The Guardian)

Nationality + Migration

Bangladesh News | Italian

Italian man killed in Bangladesh capital
  • Cesare Tavella, 50, was killed in Dhaka by unidentified gunmen in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone.
  • Tavella worked for a Netherlands-based NGO in the city.
  • The death comes at a moment of increased threats from Islamist militants in the country.

Read the full story at Reuters.

Ideology + Affiliation, Religion + Belief

Bangladesh News | Secular Atheist

Secular Bangladeshi blogger murdered in Dhaka
  • Niloy Chakrabarti was murdered in his home by hacking at the hands of a gang whose work was claimed by al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent.
  • Chakrabarti was the fourth secularist advocate against political Islam to have been murdered in the officially secular country this year.
  • Chakrabarti had reportedly requested police protection after being listed on a target list as groups called for the murder of atheists.

Read the full story at the Guardian.

(Image Credit: The Guardian)

Nationality + Migration

India & Bangladesh News | Immigrants & Nationals

Indian and Bangladeshi enclave residents decide on citizenship as deadline nears
  • In May, India and Bangladesh agreed to return enclaves within their respective borders to one another.
  • More than 50,000 enclave residents must now choose which citizenship they would like to have by July 31st, which will determine whether they will have to move.
  • Despite having officially been citizens of their country of national origin, the residents have effectively been stateless as they lack access to public services in their country of residence.

Read the full story at the BBC.

(Image Credit: via BBC)

Nationality + Migration
The NY Times has published a graphically enhanced look at the global migration crisis that is being called the worst since World War II
  • 38 million have been displaced within their own countries, while 16.7 million refugees have fled internationally.
  • Roughly 11 million Syrians and 3 million Iraqis have been internally displaced, while 4 million Syrians have left the country, straining the intake abilities of neighboring countries like Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey.
  • Approximately 25,000 Bangladeshi and Rohingya migrants have been trafficked via sea in Southeast Asia, some finding conditional acceptance in Indonesia and Malaysia and others being repatriated.
  • To date, around 78,000 have traveled across the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa and Turkey, fleeing violence, persecution, and poor economic prospects in North, West, and East Africa.
  • Finally, the conflict in Ukraine has displaced 1.3 million inside the country and sent 867,000 abroad, mostly to Russia with few European countries willing to accept them.

More on this story at The New York Times.

Race + Color + Ethnicity

Bangladesh announces it will be relocating the 32,000 Rohingya registered in two official refugee camps to an island for tourism reasons. More from Radio France Internationale (in French).

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