Tag: refugees
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Fire leaves nearly 7,000 Rohingya homeless in Bangladesh camp
A fire swept through a Rohingya refugee camp in southeastern Bangladesh in the early hours of Sunday (Jan 7), destroying about 800 shelters and rendering thousands homeless, officials said. Fire service officials and Rohingya volunteers brought the blaze under control around three hours after it hit Camp 5 in Cox’s Bazar, a border district with…
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More Rohingya refugees arrive in Indonesia despite rejection from locals
About 740,000 Rohingya were resettled in Bangladesh after fleeing their homes in Myanmar to escape a brutal counterinsurgency campaign by security forces. But the camps in Bangladesh are squalid, with surging gang violence and rampant hunger, leading many to flee again. A mob of Indonesian students on Wednesday attacked the basement of a local community…