UNGA president visits Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh 1 minute read
Dhaka, May 26 (EFE).- Rohingya refugees Wednesday urged the United Nations to put pressure on Myanmar for citizenship and safe return to their homeland a day after UN General Assembly President Volkan Bozkir arrived in Bangladesh for a two-day trip.
Bozkir, the president of the 75th session of the General Assembly, visited the refugee camp in southeast Cox’s Bazar district Wednesday, deputy commissioner for refugees Mohammad Shamsuddoha said.
Shamsuddoha said the UNGA president spent half an hour at the camp and met with some 30 refugees.“Rohingyas requested the UN General Assembly to put pressure (on Myanmar) about their citizenship and take steps to ensure their safe, dignified and voluntary repatriation to Myanmar,” said the officials.
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The world has not forgotten the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya sheltering in Bangladesh after fleeing “unimaginable horrors” in Myanmar, the president of the U.N. General Assembly said Wednesday as he visited refugee camps in the South Asian country.
Still, the ultimate goal is the repatriation of the Rohingya to their homeland, said General Assembly President Volkan Bozkir, who traveled to southeastern Cox’s Bazar district, where almost 1 million Rohingya refugees are sheltering.
“The General Assembly has not forgotten about the Rohingya people,” Bozkir said via Twitter after meeting with refugees at camps in Cox’s Bazar.
“Right now, there is no defined path for the future, for a permanent home. Voluntary, dignified and safe return is the ultimate goal. … I assure you, the United Nations General Assembly is determined to ensure a better future for the Rohingya people.”
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Bangladesh sends more Rohingyas to remote island in 5th phase of relocation 2 minutes read
Dhaka, Mar 3 (efe-epa).- Bangladeshi authorities on Wednesday began transferring over 2,200 Rohingya refugees to a remote island in the Bay of Bengal in the fifth phase of their relocation from congested camps in Cox’s Bazar in the southeast of the country.
The group will join over 10,000 Rohingyas that have already been sent to island during the first four phases of the program, according to officials.
“Today we are relocating over 2,200 refugees to Bhasan Char. They are traveling in two batches. We will transfer another group tomorrow (Thursday),” Bangladesh’s Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner Shah Rezwan Hayat told EFE.