On the run from Myanmar. ‘UN, the most impressive migration since 2017
In the last 18 months, Bangladesh has recorded the largest influx of Rohingya refugees from the mass exodus of the Muslim minority of Myanmar, which took place almost a decade ago, according to what was declared by the United Nations.
The refugee agency said that up to 150,000 Rohingya have arrived;; in the refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh since the beginning of 2024. “Targeted violence and persecution in the state of Rakhine and the ongoing conflict in Myanmar continue to force thousands of Rohingya to look for protection in Bangladesh”, told the journalists in Geneva. UNHCR spokesman, Babar Baloch. “This Rohingya refugee movement in Bangladesh, which has lasted for months, is the most impressive by Myanmar since 2017, when about 750,000 people have fled from mortal violence in their native of Rakhine,” he said.
Baloch praised Bangladesh for the generous reception of Rohingya refugees for generations. Even before the last influx, about a million Rohingya, persecuted and mostly Muslims, lived in squalid rescue camps in Bangladesh, most of whom after fleeing the 2017 military repression in Myanmar. These fields, crammed in just 24 square kilometers (nine square miles), have become “one of the most densely populated places in the world”, said Baloch.
