A network of local CSOs and NGOs in Cox’s Bazar to promote a human and gender responsive society through positive engagement with government.

Rezaul Karim Chowdhury of COAST Trust Quoted in BBC Radio ” Local police of Cox’s Bazar said that three Rohingyas who had been arrested in a kidnapping case were killed in a ‘gunfight’ with police” dated on 05 April 2019

The three Rohingyas were arrested on the charge of asking ransom by kidnapping one Rohingya child.Incidences of so called ‘gunfight or crossfire’ among arrested and police in Bangladesh is not new. But such cases of gunfight with Rohingyas are rare.The gunfight was taken place near the Muchni Rohingya camp in Hnila, Teknaf on Satarday morning, […]

Rezaul Karim Chowdhury of COAST Trust Quoted in The Daily Star Newspaper “Rohingya Repatriation: Doubt lingers as conflict flares up in Myanmar” dated on 14 march 2019

Rezaul Karim Chowdhury, head of COAST Trust, a non-profit body working for the Rohingyas, said there was a grave danger of radicalisation if the Rohingyas were not provided with education and income-generating activities. Vested groups could take advantage of their frustration and idle days in the camps, he added. He said the religiously-conservative Rohingyas should […]