73,000 Rohingya Muslims Pour Into Bangladesh Fleeing Myanmar Massacre
23 August 2017The influx of Rohingya
Muslims has continued with at least 73,000 people crossing into Bangladesh
after violence killed nearly 400 people in Myanmar's restive Rakhine state
late last month, U.N. refugee agency said Sunday.
"Hundreds of people displaced by the violence are still crossing into
Bangladesh. An estimated 73,000 people have entered into Bangladesh as of
Sunday morning," Joseph Tripura, spokesman for the United Nations High
Commission for Refugees in Dhaka, told DPA.
The estimate is based on witnesses' accounts and reports by the local and
international non-governmental organizations working for the Rohingya refugees
in south-eastern Bangladeshi district of Cox's Bazar bordering Rakhine State,
he said.
The deaths of nearly 400 people in violence against Rohingya people by
Myanmarese security forces on Aug. 25 forced the minority Muslims to cross in
their thousands to neighboring Bangladesh for safety.
Many others have been trapped in the border between the two countries awaiting
shelter, food and security. Dozens have died trying to cross a river into
Bangladesh in an effort to escape the unrest.
The refugees said that the security forces carried out attacks on civilians,
torched their homes and drive them out of Rakhine.
The UNHCR official said local volunteers were trying to reach the displaced
people with emergency support.
"Many of (the Rohingya refugees) were provided with temporary shelters at
school buildings and community centers," Tripura said, adding that a
full-fledged need assessment for the newly landed refugees would take a great
deal of time to prepare as the migrant inflow is continuing unabated.
Meanwhile, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has called on Bangladesh
to open its doors to Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar.
Speaking at a Qurban Bayram (Feast of Sacrifice), also known as Eid al-Adha,
celebration event in the Mediterranean province of Antalya on Friday,
Çavuşoğlu reiterated Turkey's call to Bangladesh to open its doors to Rohingya
people, and said that Turkey would pay all the expenses.
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