Bangladesh and humanitarian organisations are struggling to help 422,000 Rohingya who have arrived since Aug 25, when attacks by Rohingya militants triggered a Myanmar counter-insurgency offensive that the United Nations has branded ethnic cleansing. Bangladesh was already home to some 400,000 Rohingya who fled earlier bouts of violence and persecution in Buddhist-majority Myanmar. The United Nations launched an appeal for $78 million on Sept 9, but the refugees have kept coming. The insurgents were also behind similar but smaller attacks in October last year, that also led to a brutal Myanmar army response triggering the flight of 87,000 Rohingya to Bangladesh. Watkins said the United Nations was working with Bangladeshi authorities to build new roads.

Source: bd News24 September 22, 2017 09:11 UTC