‘Number of Rohingya Refugees Spiked’: United Nations Refugee Agency

Bangkok: The total number of refugees has increased in Southeast Asia over the last year and a half, the United Nations refugee agency said in a report released on Wednesday. Most of the refugees are Rohingya Muslims who fled persecution in Myanmar, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Between January 2018 and June 2019, 17,907 Rohingya, 55 per cent of whom were children, fled from Myanmar to the world’s largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar in southeast Bangladesh, according to Efe news. “Rohingya suffer serious limitations on their basic human rights in their country of origin, depriving them of opportunities to lead decent lives and dimming their hopes for a secure future,” the report said. In total, some 906,500 Rohingya live in overcrowded refugee camps in Bangladesh. Around 741,947 of them arrived following the military operation against the ethnic minority group launched in August 2017 by the Myanmarese army in northern Arakan state in the western part of the country. (IANS)

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