Rohingya people in and outside Myanmar are facing a further deterioration of their already dire conditions, eight years after being forcibly displaced from Rakhine State, according to the United Nations. UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric shared the observation in a statement marking eight years since the start of the mass Rohingya exodus into Bangladesh. Since Bangladesh opened its border, Rohingya have settled across vast areas of Cox’s Bazar and Ukhia. At the time, the UN described the campaign against the Rohingya as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing”. The United States government has also labelled the atrocities committed against the Rohingya as “genocide”.
