More than 300,000 Rohingya refugee children 'outcast and desperate', Unicef says
Source: The Guardian
Nearly 340,000 Rohingya children are living in squalid conditions in Bangladesh camps where they lack enough food, clean water and health care, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) said on Friday.
Up to 12,000 more children join them every week, fleeing violence or hunger in Myanmar, often still traumatised by atrocities they witnessed, it said in a report “Outcast and Desperate”.
In all, almost 600,000 Rohingya refugees have left northern Rakhine state since 25 August when the UN says the Myanmar army began a campaign of “ethnic cleansing” following insurgent attacks.
“This isn’t going to be a short-term, it isn’t going to end anytime soon,” Simon Ingram, the report’s author and a Unicef official, told a news briefing.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/20/300000-rohingya-refugee-children-outcast-and-desperate-says-unicef
Remember the "ethnic cleansing" conducted by Serbian 'Christians' two decades ago in Bosnia? Well, now it's Burmese Buddhists doing the dirty deeds. The only connection? The victims in Bosnia then and Myanmar now were/are Muslims. Don't expect to see Trump or Fox talking about that!
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