More than 300,000 Rohingya refugee children 'outcast and desperate', Unicef says

[Daneman]

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.

“So it is absolutely critical that the borders remain open and that protection for children is given and equally that children born in Bangladesh have their birth registered.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...te-says-unicef

I really hope this doesn't spill over to europe. We already have enough problems as it is with people from africa and middle east flooding to our countries.

[Daedius]

That's awful.

I really hope this doesn't spill over to europe. We already have enough problems as it is with people from africa and middle east flooding to our countries.

Rather have those refugee kids being taken care of here in Europe over the current bearded "children" we've taken in already...

[Pyro1990]

What other countries around there have the means to help them? I mean there is China and India but I kinda doubt China will help. How well is Bangladesh doing as a country? I'll admit I'm not very well versed in the area.

[Elba]

What other countries around there have the means to help them? I mean there is China and India but I kinda doubt China will help. How well is Bangladesh doing as a country? I'll admit I'm not very well versed in the area.

Australia?

[Pyro1990]

Australia?

I thought about that but I figured their first route would be somewhere they could get to by land. With this seeming to be happening in northern Burma I would think they wouldnt want to travel straight to the southern Burmese coast. It could work with an itermidiary state though.

[Logwyn]

Australia?

New Zealand still has that hobbit village from the Lord of the Rings movies. It could work?

Why can't the UN build an island or Qatar?

[Melius]

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.

“So it is absolutely critical that the borders remain open and that protection for children is given and equally that children born in Bangladesh have their birth registered.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...te-says-unicef

I really hope this doesn't spill over to europe. We already have enough problems as it is with people from africa and middle east flooding to our countries.

they're too far away from europe. the chinese and indians could give a hand into helping these people.

[Deleted]

Yeah, poor Rohingyas... except there must be a reason when when every single surrounding country hates you and refuse to take you, when a Nobel Peace Prize winner prime minsiter wants get rid of you, when the followers of the most peaceful religion aka Buddhist monks grab weapons to chase you away...

[Ave07]

What other countries around there have the means to help them? I mean there is China and India but I kinda doubt China will help. How well is Bangladesh doing as a country? I'll admit I'm not very well versed in the area.

My family is from Bangladesh and I can tell you we are still poor as we can't even properly house, feed, give access to clean water own our people.

This will continue unless the UN steps in.

[Snuffleupagus]

Australia?

Australia would put them in concentration camps like they do with most refugees.

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What other countries around there have the means to help them? I mean there is China and India but I kinda doubt China will help. How well is Bangladesh doing as a country? I'll admit I'm not very well versed in the area.

India won't help either, Rohingya are majority Muslim which won't fly in a country as steeped in racism and religious intolerance as India.

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Why can't the UN build an island or Qatar?

Because the UN is impotent and Qatar already takes in a lot of Bangladeshi people. I mean mostly as slave labour, but still.

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most peaceful religion aka Buddhist monks

Fucking lol. Don't believe the hype, Buddhists can be as bloodthirsty as the rest of them.

[Deleted]

Looking at photo there are 2 kids and hundreds of grown ups. Typical for modern shit media.

While there is humanitarian crisis, using clickbait titles and misinformation doesn't help cause.

Rather have those refugee kids being taken care of here in Europe over the current bearded "children" we've taken in already...

No difference really. Its same age 20-40 "children", with few actual children thrown in mix for photo ops.

[Independent voter]

We're taking 20K, looks like that's just a drop in a bucket.

Where's Canada? Canada is empty.

[AeneasBK]

Yeah, poor Rohingyas... except there must be a reason when when every single surrounding country hates you and refuse to take you, when a Nobel Peace Prize winner prime minsiter wants get rid of you, when the followers of the most peaceful religion aka Buddhist monks grab weapons to chase you away...

A good point, you'd think said PM would have no issue explaining why she's ethnically cleansing that part of Myanmar; as opposed to just claiming its not happening at all; which was the last state of affairs; right?