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2015 Rohingya refugee crisis
- Parties and Alliances
- Ministries
- Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention) Act, 2013
- Anti-Terrorism Act, 2009
- Cyber Security Act, 2023
- Fifteenth constitutional amendment
- International Crimes Tribunal
- 2013 Shahbag protests
- Enforced disappearances (Aynaghar)
- Bangladesh Rifles revolt
- Abolition of Caretaker Government
- 2015 Rohingya crisis
- 2013 Bangladesh violence
- Padma Bridge graft scandal
- Young Bangla
- Attacks by Islamic extremists
- July 2016 Dhaka attack
- Bangladesh Bank robbery
- 2021 anti-Hindu violence
- Persecution of journalists
- 2015 political crisis
- Suppressed freedom of expression
- Indo-Bangla land boundary agreement, 2015
- COVID-19 pandemic
- 2024 State visit to China
- Vision 2021
- Delta Plan
- Jamuna Bridge
- Forces Goal 2030
- Digital Bangladesh
- Padma Bridge
- Dhaka–Jessore line
- Karnaphuli Tunnel
- Rampal Power Station
- Ganges Barrage Project
- Port of Payra
- Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant
- Purbachal New Town
- Ashrayan-2
- Bangladesh Satellite-1
- Metro Rail
- Matarbari Port
- Dhaka Elevated Expressway
- Chittagong Elevated Expressway
In 2015, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people were forcibly displaced from their villages and IDP camps in Rakhine State, Myanmar, due to sectarian violence. Over 700,000 fled to neighbouring Bangladesh and some travelled to Southeast Asian countries including Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand by rickety boats via the waters of the Strait of Malacca, Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimated that 50,000 people had left by boat from January to March in 2015 by migrant smugglers. There are claims that, while on their journey, around 100 people died in Indonesia, 200 in Malaysia, and 10 in Thailand, after the traffickers abandoned them at sea.
In October 2015, researchers from the International State Crime Initiative at Queen Mary University of London released a report drawing on leaked government documents that reveal an increasing "ghettoization, sporadic massacres, and restrictions on movement" on Rohingya people. The researchers suggest that the Myanmar government are in the final stages of an organised process of genocide against the Rohingya and have called upon the international community to redress the situation as such.