Rohingya in camps in Bangladesh or Myanmar have no freedom of movement, no access to school, no real livelihoods or no future at all.” Maung Zarni of the Free Rohingya Coalition
It has been two years since a brutal military campaign waged by Myanmar authorities triggered an exodus of at least 700,000 Rohingya Muslims to Bangladesh — an operation that rights groups have branded “A UN fact-finding mission has documented major abuses in Rakhine since 2016, including widespread killings and torching of villages, and said its findings warrant prosecution for war crimes and crimes against humanity in a forum such as the International Criminal Court.
Myanmar has been “institutionalising the persecution and subjecting the Rohingyas to extreme and sadistic forms of violence, including mass rape and throwing children onto fire, burning houses and slaughtering people,” Zarni toldThis has been through a slew of measures designed to exclude Rohingyas as a sizable slice of Myanmar’s population — moves like enacting a 1982 Citizenship Law effectively denying Rohingya citizenship, under which they are not recognised as a national ethnic group in...
On the other side of the border, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are facing an increasingly uncertain future with a hostile media landscape and little opportunity to build a future for themselves. More than 900,000 Rohingya, an ethnic and religious Muslim minority in Myanmar, live in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district, the vast majority in camps, according to UNICEF.
And there are the plans to relocate some 100,000 refugees to the muddy isle of Bhasan Char accessible only by boat, plans for which include erecting a barbed wire fence and security guards to pen refugees in. over the potential move, saying that frequent flooding and cyclones in the area will jeopardise the safety of the refugees.
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