COX’S BAZAR: At least three boats carrying hundreds of Rohingya refugees set sail from Bangladesh this week,…
COX’S BAZAR: At least three boats carrying hundreds of Rohingya refugees set sail from Bangladesh this week, refugees said Friday, the latest in a wave of migrations that has seen more than 1,000 asylum seekers arrive on Indonesian shores.
Bangladesh is home to around one million Rohingya refugees, most of whom fled a violent 2017 crackdown by the Myanmar military that is now subject to a United Nations genocide probe.
Conditions for Rohingya refugees in the overcrowded, dangerous and under-resourced relief camps in Bangladesh are tough.
Mohammad Ullah, 26, a registered Rohingya refugee in the Nayapara camp in Cox’s Bazar, said his former mother-in-law – who had been looking after his four-year-old daughter after his wife died – had taken the child with her on a boat to Indonesia on Tuesday night.
“She took my daughter saying that she was taking…