Makoto Hasebe, the #Japanese soccer player who serves as #Japan's national #UNICEF goodwill ambassador, visited a Muslim #Rohingya refugee camp in southern #Bangladesh to call greater attention to the refugees' plight. 📸: UNICEF Japan Ambassador Makoto Hasebe plays a game of football with #Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh.#AChildIsAChild pic.twitter.com/HL6rzqmD7f — UNICEF Bangladesh (@UNICEFBD) June 6, 2019Hasebe, who also visited a Syrian refugee camp in Greece, in November—as the goodwill ambassador of the Japan Committee for the UN Children’s Fund—told reporters that he was surprised by the scale of refugee concentration in Cox’s Bazar. Hasebe said he wants to urge the world community to tackle the refugee problem and solve it as soon as possible. Japanese football player laments that children in the #Rohingya #refugee camps are “deprived of” proper education and medical facilities. #Bangladesh https://t.co/lIaCYxmdFt — Shafiur Rahman (@shafiur) June 7, 2019The Rohingya are a stateless Muslim minority in the predominantly Buddhist Myanmar.

Source: Dhaka Tribune June 08, 2019 05:15 UTC