- This year there are six times more Rohingys than those who have escaped by sea from the Bangladeshi refugee camps, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Rohingya is a stateless nation forced to migrate because of persecution in Myanmar. Almost one million people live in precarious and cumulative conditions in Bangladesh, and about 200 people have died at sea this year.
About one million Rohingya lives in the refugee camps in south-eastern Bangladesh, in the Cox’s Bazar region, fleeing persecution and discrimination suffered in Myanmar, victims of army attacks and the Citizenship Act does not recognize Burmese citizenship to those rohingies.Los Médecins Sans Frontières have denounced that the areas of Bangladesh are one of the worst refugees in the world.
The UNHCR group, which deals with the issue of UN refugees, has announced this weekend that the Rohingys who escape by sea from the Bangladesh camps are six times more than last year. At the same time, figures dead or missing at sea have not been seen in recent years: It's been about 200, according to UN data.
In recent days, the organization has called for action on the part of the international community following the landing in Indonesia of the 180 Rohingys which had been missing for a month. On Sunday, 57 new refugees came to Indonesia from the Bangladesh refugee camps.