UN says: Support needed for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

 

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The Rohingya refugee response in Bangladesh is approaching its fifth year, and the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), on Tuesday called for international support for those who fled Myanmar and for the Bangladeshi communities hosting them.

The 2022 Joint Response Plan for the Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis was launched on Tuesday, and humanitarian agencies said they seek more than $881 million to support around 1.4 million people.

That includes more than 902,000 Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar and Bhasan Char and around 540,000 Bangladeshis in neighboring communities, the UNHCR said.

The Bangladesh government, supported by the international community, has generously hosted Rohingya refugees for decades, Baloch said.

The UNHCR spokesman said that given their geography, the refugee camps in Cox's Bazar are especially vulnerable to natural disasters.

Bangladesh is currently home to nearly 1.2 million Rohingya Muslims who fled a brutal military crackdown in Rakhine state in their home country of Myanmar in August 2017. Rohingya Crisis