Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Why Rohingya refugees are protesting in Cox’s Bazar, 9 years after
genocide
The Rohingya are a mostly Muslim ethnic group who live in the western
coastal state of Rakhine, one of the poorest states in Myanmar. After
Buddhist-majority Myanmar launched a military crackdown in Rakhine following an
attack by an armed group in 2017, many of the Rohingya escaped and crossed the
border to Muslim-majority Bangladesh in a mass exodus. Since then, more than
1.2 million Rohingya refugees have been living in about 30 camps in Cox’s Bazar
in southeastern Bangladesh, forming the world’s largest refugee settlement. As
the Rohingya aren’t officially recognized by Myanmar’s government, they are the
world’s largest homeless and stateless ethnic group. To mark nine years since
the military crackdown, tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees in the camps held
mass protests and rallied on August 25, calling for justice, accountability for
the 2017 atrocities, safe and dignified repatriation to Rakhine State in
Myanmar, and full citizenship rights. The Secretary-General of the UN also called
for renewed global attention & action to the plight of the Rohingya, and for
the international community to provide humanitarian assistance, alongside
livelihood opportunities & self-reliance support.
Read the article and learn about the hardship and suffering of the
Rohingya refugees.
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