Nearly one million Rohingya from Myanmar are living in crowded facilities in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, including tens of thousands who fled their home country after its military conducted a deadly crackdown in 2017.
on board will make 2022 one of the worst years for the community, a United Nations agency told Reuters on Monday, December 26, as refugees try to flee desperate conditions in camps in Bangladesh.
The UNHCR said the vessel, which was not seaworthy, may have started to crack in early December before losing contact. The agency said it was not clear where the boat started from, but three Rohingya men, including one who fears he has lost four of his family members, said it set off from Bangladesh.
“One of the worst years for dead and missing after 2013 and 2014,” Baloch said of 2022, adding the number of people trying to flee had returned to levels seen before the COVID-19 pandemic. Sayedur Rahman, 38, who fled to Malaysia in 2012 from Myanmar, said his wife, two sons aged 17 and 13, and a daughter aged 12 were among the missing.
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