House of Commons International Development Committee: Bangladesh and Burma: the Rohingya crisis — Monsoon preparedness in Cox’s Bazar – Third Report of Session 2017–19

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Published by reliefweb on March 19, 2018 Download PDF here. Report Background We travelled to Bangladesh in early March 2018 as part of our inquiry into DFID’s work in Bangladesh and Burma1 commenced in October 2017.2 As part of the programme, we visited the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar to follow-up on our interim report on that crisis (published in January 20183). The scale of the displacement, the provision made by the Bangladesh authorities and the efforts of the various international agencies, NGOs and other organisations, have to be experienced at first hand to be fully appreciated.4 A new

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We Can’t Let Myanmar Get Away with Ethnic Cleansing

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By Matthew Gindin | Published by tricycle on February 16, 2018 The international community must not allow the Rohingya crisis to fade away without consequence. The situation of the Rohingya in Bangladesh and Myanmar continues to darken as the brutal Burmese campaign against them, one the UN has called a “textbook case of ethnic cleansing,” seems set to fade from international attention. Nearly 700,000 are now living in squalid refugee camps in Bangladesh while those still within Myanmar are subject to a two-pronged campaign of destruction. On the ground they continue to be victims of violence, while in the Burmese

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