Nearly a million refugees from Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority are currently living in overcrowded, “temporary” camps in neighboring Bangladesh, with no solution in sight, five years after their massive escape from persecution in their home country.
The complaint is from the non-governmental organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which this Wednesday marks in a statement the exact date of this exodus of the Rohingyas “to the biggest and most recent wave of violence in Myanmar” – August 25, 2017 – to the poorest country in the world, collecting testimonies from people of different generations who were or are sick with MSF and have since been living in refugee camps located near the port city of Cox’s Bazar, in southeastern Bangladesh.
The approximately 750,000 Rohingya who fled Myanmar that day, joining more than 100,000 who had already taken refuge in the neighboring country and others that followed, depend, according to MSF, on humanitarian aid and have “very little prospects of future”.
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