PM Hasina visits Rohingya refugee camp
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(12 Sep 2017) The Bangladeshi
(12 Sep 2017) The Bangladeshi prime minister demanded on Tuesday that Myanmar allow the return of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled recent violence in Buddhist-majority nation - a crisis she said left her speechless.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh would offer the refugees temporary shelter and aid, but that Myanmar should soon "take their nationals back."
"We will not tolerate injustice," she said at a rally at the Kutupalong refugee camp, near the border town of Ukhiya in Cox's Bazar district.
At least 370,000 Rohingya have flooded into Bangladesh since August 25, when Rohingya insurgents attacked police posts, prompting Myanmar's military to retaliate with what it called "clearance operations" to root out the rebels.
The crisis has drawn sharp criticism from around the world.
The UN human rights chief said Myanmar's ethnic Rohingya minority was facing what "seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing."
UN rights investigators have been barred from entering the country.
Bangladesh has said it would free 2,000 acres (810 hectares) of land for a new camp in Cox's Bazar district, to help shelter newly arrived Rohingya.
The government was also fingerprinting and registering new arrivals.
Kutupalong and another pre-existing Rohingya camps were already beyond capacity.
Other new arrivals were staying in schools, or huddling in makeshift settlements with no toilets along roadsides and in open fields.
Rohingya have faced decades of discrimination and persecution in Myanmar and are denied citizenship despite centuries-olds roots in the Rakhine region.
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh would offer the refugees temporary shelter and aid, but that Myanmar should soon "take their nationals back."
"We will not tolerate injustice," she said at a rally at the Kutupalong refugee camp, near the border town of Ukhiya in Cox's Bazar district.
At least 370,000 Rohingya have flooded into Bangladesh since August 25, when Rohingya insurgents attacked police posts, prompting Myanmar's military to retaliate with what it called "clearance operations" to root out the rebels.
The crisis has drawn sharp criticism from around the world.
The UN human rights chief said Myanmar's ethnic Rohingya minority was facing what "seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing."
UN rights investigators have been barred from entering the country.
Bangladesh has said it would free 2,000 acres (810 hectares) of land for a new camp in Cox's Bazar district, to help shelter newly arrived Rohingya.
The government was also fingerprinting and registering new arrivals.
Kutupalong and another pre-existing Rohingya camps were already beyond capacity.
Other new arrivals were staying in schools, or huddling in makeshift settlements with no toilets along roadsides and in open fields.
Rohingya have faced decades of discrimination and persecution in Myanmar and are denied citizenship despite centuries-olds roots in the Rakhine region.
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