Bangladesh has no scope to allocate more resources for its 1.3 million Rohingya refugees, Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus said on Monday, urging the international community to find a sustainable solution to the crisis.
Children make up half the 1.3 million Rohingya refugees now living in Bangladesh, most of whom fled a brutal 2017 military crackdown in Buddhist-majority Myanmar that U.N. investigators called a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing”.
Hosting the refugees has put a huge strain on Bangladesh, in areas from its economy and environment to governance, said Nobel peace laureate Yunus, the South Asian nation’s de-facto prime minister.
“We don’t foresee any scope whatsoever for further mobilisation of resources from domestic sources, given our numerous challenges,” Yunus said in a speech.
He called for the international community to draft a practical roadmap for their return home.
“The Rohingya issue and its sustainable resolution must be kept alive on the global agenda, as they need our support until they return home.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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