On 25 August 2025, Marking Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day, around 200 people joined a solidarity march in Dhaka on Sunday to demand justice for the persecuted Rohingya community and to reaffirm support for their struggle for freedom and dignity.
Organized by the Bangladesh Peoples’ Coalition for Rohingya Rights, the demonstration began at Shahbagh in front of the National Museum and concluded at the Shaheed Minar. Participants carried both the Bangladesh national flag and the Arakan flag, symbolizing unity with the Rohingya cause.
The air was charged with chants of defiance and solidarity. Slogans such as “রোহিঙ্গা জাতির ওয়াতান, নাফ থেকে কালাদান”, “From the mountain to the sea, Arakan will be free”, and “নাফ থেকে কালাদান, মুক্ত হবে আরাকান” echoed through the streets as marchers called for the recognition of atrocities committed against the Rohingya as genocide.
Speakers at the rally underscored the urgent need for international action, stressing that the Rohingya people continue to endure statelessness, displacement, and systematic persecution. They urged the global community to hold perpetrators accountable and to support the Rohingya’s right to return to their homeland with safety, dignity, and citizenship rights.
The annual remembrance day commemorates the mass exodus of Rohingya people in 2017, when hundreds of thousands fled Myanmar’s Rakhine State following brutal military and extremist crackdowns.
