Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 23-11-2017
The United Nations (UN) says despite Myanmar and Bangladesh signing an agreement covering the return of Rohingya Muslims, refugees are still crossing the border into Bangladesh every day due to the ongoing violence.
Over the past three months, more than 600,000 Rohingya refugees have crossed into Cox’s Bazar, fleeing violence and oppression in Myanmar’s Northern Rakhine state.
The most recent influx of some 1,800 in the past week, brings the total population of Rohingya seeking safety in the district to more than 836,000.
The International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Emergency Coordinator Andrew Lind says influx of Rohingya in to Cox’s Bazar has increased.
“People are still arriving in the settlements with horrifying accounts of physical and sexual abuse, harassment and murder. All of them fear for family members left behind in Myanmar.”
Meanwhile, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) has found that over 60 per cent of water sources tested in the settlements were contaminated with E.coli.
Shallow wells located less than 30 feet away from latrines are culpable, with full latrines and a lack of space to drain them contributing to the potentially life-threatening problem.
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