Thu. Mar 28th, 2024

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh — An enormous hearth at a crammed camp for Rohingya Muslims in southern Bangladesh left 1000’s of the refugees homeless Sunday, a hearth official and the United Nations stated.

No casualties had been reported at Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar district, stated Emdadul Haque, a hearth service official.

The UNHCR in Bangladesh stated in a tweet that Rohingya refugee volunteers responded to the hearth with the company and its companions offering help. It offered no additional particulars.

Greater than 1 million Rohingya refugees have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar over a number of a long time, together with about 740,000 who crossed the border beginning in August 2017, when the Myanmar army launched a brutal crackdown.

Circumstances in Myanmar have worsened since a army takeover in 2021, and makes an attempt to ship again the refugees have failed.

Learn Extra: ‘We’re Not Allowed to Dream.’ Rohingya Muslims Exiled to Bangladesh Are Caught in Limbo With out an Finish In Sight

Final 12 months, the US stated the oppression of Rohingya in Myanmar quantities to genocide after U.S. authorities confirmed accounts of mass atrocities towards civilians by the army in a scientific marketing campaign towards the ethnic minority. Muslim Rohingya face widespread discrimination in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, the place most are denied citizenship and plenty of different rights.

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