DHAKA: About one million Rohingya refugees are facing “increasingly dire conditions” in Bangladesh‘s Cox’s Bazar camps amid surging violence by armed groups and criminal gangs, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Friday.
In Aug alone, there have been reports of members of the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation and Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army carrying out killings, abductions, forced recruitment, extortion, and robbery.Bangladesh authorities have failed to ensure refugees access to protection, education, livelihoods, and movement, said the global Rights body.
Bangladesh’s interim govt chief adviser, Prof Muhammad Yunus, said he will “continue to support the million-plus Rohingyas sheltered in Bangladesh”. Foreign adviser Md Touhid Hossain said they are not in a position to accept more refugees.
In Aug alone, there have been reports of members of the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation and Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army carrying out killings, abductions, forced recruitment, extortion, and robbery.Bangladesh authorities have failed to ensure refugees access to protection, education, livelihoods, and movement, said the global Rights body.
Bangladesh’s interim govt chief adviser, Prof Muhammad Yunus, said he will “continue to support the million-plus Rohingyas sheltered in Bangladesh”. Foreign adviser Md Touhid Hossain said they are not in a position to accept more refugees.
Source : Times of India
