ONE YEAR SINCE BEING FORCED OUT OF MYANMAR, MORE THAN 720,000 ROHINGYA REFUGEES ARE SEEKING REPATRIATION, AMIDST DETERIORATING CAMP CONDITIONS IN BANGLADESH.
Cox’s Bazar, BangladeshLocation of refugee camp.
Over 720,000Refugees have been forced out of Myanmar (as of August 22nd, 2018).
August 25, 2017Date of mass refugee exodus.
It has been almost a year since over 720,000 Rohingya fled their home state of Rakhine in Myanmar due to extreme violence, what the UN called a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing.” Most who have fled now live in Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
Many Rohingya continue to flee Myanmar and find themselves at Kutupalong, where living conditions are worsening and monsoon rains have caused landslides in the area.
While many Rohingya refugees hope to return to Myanmar, they still face extreme intolerance and violence and the country’s leader has refused to provide a timeline for allowing the Rohingya back.
Support and donations are needed to continue to provide relief in refugee camps, including shelter, blankets, food and access to clean water, especially in the middle of the monsoon season.
WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department announced Friday that it had imposed economic sanctions on Burmese security forces for what American officials said was their role in “ethnic cleansing” against Rohingya Muslims and “widespread human rights abuses” against other ethnic minority groups. The action targets four Burmese military and border guard commanders and two military units. The United States had previously penalized only one Burmese commander for the violence, which
Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says government will match donations made between Aug. 25 – Nov. 28 The Canadian government is stepping up its humanitarian effort on the Rohingya refugee crisis, announcing Tuesday that it would match every eligible donation made by individual Canadians to registered charities between Aug. 25 and Nov. 28. “In the face of this crisis, I know that Canadians want to help. They
Some 515,0000 refugees have fled to Bangladesh during 6 weeks of violence The United Nations braced on Friday for a possible further exodus of Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar into Bangladesh six weeks after the world’s fastest-developing refugee emergency began. Around 515,000 Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh from Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine in an unrelenting movement of people that began after Myanmar security forces responded to Rohingya militant attacks with a
U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Myanmar Military Over Rohingya Atrocities
WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department announced Friday that it had imposed economic sanctions on Burmese security forces for what American officials said was their role in “ethnic cleansing” against Rohingya Muslims and “widespread human rights abuses” against other ethnic minority groups.
The action targets four Burmese military and border guard commanders and two military units. The United States had previously penalized only one Burmese commander for the violence, which has caused 700,000 Rohingya to flee to Bangladesh and other parts of Asia. The European Union and Canada had hit seven officials with sanctions.
Canadian government to match charitable donations for Rohingya crisis
Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says government will match donations made between Aug. 25 – Nov. 28
The Canadian government is stepping up its humanitarian effort on the Rohingya refugee crisis, announcing Tuesday that it would match every eligible donation made by individual Canadians to registered charities between Aug. 25 and Nov. 28.
“In the face of this crisis, I know that Canadians want to help. They want to do their part,” said Minister of International Development Marie-Claude Bibeau. “The needs on the ground are huge, particularly for women and children who represent 70 per cent of new refugees since August.”
“I invite all Canadians to be generous…your donations will save lives and will help more than 900,000 refugees to recover their sense of dignity until they are able to return to their homes to live, hopefully, in peace and security,” Bibeau said.
The United Nations refugee agency estimates that since Aug. 25, more than 600,000 Rohingya refugees have fled violence in Myanmar and are now in Bangladesh, joining an existing Rohingya refugee population of roughly 300,000. The latest surge follows a brutal Myanmar army-led campaign against the Muslim-minority population that the UN human rights chief has described as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing.”
UN fears further exodus of Muslim Rohingya from Myanmar
Some 515,0000 refugees have fled to Bangladesh during 6 weeks of violence
The United Nations braced on Friday for a possible further exodus of Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar into Bangladesh six weeks after the world’s fastest-developing refugee emergency began.
Around 515,000 Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh from Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine in an unrelenting movement of people that began after Myanmar security forces responded to Rohingya militant attacks with a brutal crackdown.
The UN has denounced the Myanmar military offensive as ethnic cleansing, but Myanmar insists its forces are fighting “terrorists” who have killed civilians and burned villages.
Rights groups say more than 200 Rohingya villages in the north of Rakhine state have been torched in a campaign by the security forces and Buddhist vigilantes to drive out Muslims.
UN humanitarian relief chief Mark Lowcock reiterated an appeal for access to the population in northern Rakhine, saying the situation was “unacceptable.”
Buddhist-majority Myanmar has blocked most access to the area, although some agencies have offices open in towns there and the International Committee of the Red Cross is helping the Myanmar Red Cross to deliver aid.4
