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Our Correspondent . Cox’s Bazar
In recent weeks, there has been a quiet surge in the influx of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar into Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar area, local people and some NGO officials said.
Without giving any figure of such new entrants, they said of late scores of people belonging to the Myanmar ethnic minority called Rohingayas had been trickling into Bangladesh, crossing the border and the river Naaf.
Many of these new arrivals were putting up makeshift shelters around Kutupalong hill near the ‘government refugee camp’ under Ukhiya police station. They were constructing houses by cutting the hill and extracting timber from the nearest forest, the local people alleged.
One of the new refugees, Katija Begum (22), said she entered into Bangladesh through Balokhali border point on May 21 with her husband and three sons.
She said her family had been evicted from their homestead in Myanmar by Burmese military and border security forces, alleging that the their home was burnt down and cattles taken away by Myanmar authorities.

HINDU.COM
United Nations (PTI): The UN Security Council on Saturday expressed its concern over the political impact of the detention of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on Myanmar.

The 15-member body, in a press statement, reiterated the importance of the release of all political prisoners and asked the Myanmar Government to create favourable condition for a genuine dialogue with different parties.

The council said "create the necessary conditions for a genuine dialogue with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and all concerned parties and ethnic groups in order to achieve an inclusive national reconciliation with the support of the United Nations."