Some of their guardians in Durgapur Upazila said their children were shown mobile phone videos of Rohingya children being slaughtered in Myanmar. Nearly 500,000 Rohingyas have fled across the border to Bangladesh since the Myanmar military began a crackdown in Rakhine State. Several private organisations have taken the initiative to raise aid funds for the Rohingya refugees currently living in camps in Cox’s Bazar. According to madrasa teachers in Durgapur they have been collecting aid money from their students under instructions from the district’s madrasa teachers union. The madrasa teachers union has instructed the collection of aid money to support Rohingyas, he told bdnews24.com.

Source: bd News24 September 27, 2017 12:33 UTC