A civil society leader said the ration cut would exacerbate crime in the camps, affecting women and children the most. Read more at straitstimes.com.
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh - Looming cuts to food aid will have a “devastating” effect on the estimated million Rohingya living in sprawling Bangladeshi refugee camps, community leaders from the stateless minority said Saturday.for the first time since a 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar that drove huge numbers of Rohingya out of their homes and across the border.
“We understand that the world’s attention towards the Rohingya is decreasing,” Mr Sayedullah, a Rohingya community leader living in the camps, told AFP.Mr Salimullah, another civil society leader, said the ration cut would exacerbate crime in the camps, with women and children suffering the most. The 2017 crackdown in Myanmar – now the subject of a UN genocide investigation – sent around 750,000 Rohingya fleeing into neighbouring Bangladesh with harrowing stories of murder, rape and arson.
Rohingya living in the camps around Cox’s Bazar are not allowed to seek employment and are almost entirely dependent on limited humanitarian aid to survive.
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