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Rohingyas want justice, safe return home: Guterres
Dhaka, July 2, 2018 (BSS) – The United Nation Secretary General Antonio
Guterres today said Rohingyas want justice and safe return home.
“I’ve just heard unimaginable accounts of killing and rape from Rohingyas
who recently fled Myanmar. They want justice and safe return home,” Guterres
said in his twitter accounts during a visit in Rohingya camps of Cox’s Bazaar
today.
Ahead of the visit early today, in his another tweet, the UN
chief said the Rohingyas are one of the most discriminated and vulnerable
communities on earth.
“The Rohingya crisis is a humanitarian and human rights nightmare. I thank
Bangladesh for its generosity in hosting the displaced Myanmar nationals,” he
said.
The Secretary General also expressed concerned about the overall condition
of the Rohingya during this monsoon season saying that the safety of the
Rohingyas during this season is priority one. “We cannot allow the monsoon to
wash away the hopes of the Rohingyas I met today in Bangladesh,” he also
twitted.
The UN chief along with The World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim reached
Cox’s Bazar on a special flight of Biman Bangladesh airlines at 8:45am to
visit different Rohingya camps there.
Bangladesh Foreign Minister A H Mahmood Ali and visiting United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi also accompanied them.
Around 700,000 Rohingyas took shelter in Bangladesh from Myanmar’s Rakhine
state since last August following the brutal military actions termed by UN as
“ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” by rights groups.
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