UNICEF is on the ground assisting Rohingya families devastated by a blaze that swept through four refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. UNICEF is working to reunite missing children with their families and providing emergency assistance to those in need.

What caused the Rohingya refugee crisis? The Rohingya refugee crisis is caused by the Rohingya people having long faced violence and discrimination in Myanmar. Armed conflict escalated in August 2017 in Rakhine State, causing Rohingya to flee to nearby Bangladesh. U.N.

Rakhine State

In the 1970s, the Myanmar military began a campaign of brutal crackdowns in Rohingya villages, forcing the Rohingya population to flee Myanmar. Many Rohingya migrated illegally to predominantly Buddhist Bengali villages.

Being stateless in their home country of Myanmar, the Rohingya are unable to travel to another country legally. India, which did not sign the 1951 UN Refugee Convention, treats all Rohingya entering the country as illegal immigrants. Police said, they were illegal immigrants, and they arrested them immediately.

It’s allowed for any foreigner to work in India with valid documents and purposes. There some states near Bangladesh border has unofficial trend on this issues. Bangladesh was partitioned on very cruel terms from India, hence there is a general taboo of Bangladeshis.

40,000 Rohingya illegal

India & UN convention India has welcomed refugees in the past, and on date, nearly 300,000 people here are categorised as refugees.

Effectively denied citizenship under the 1982 Citizenship law, they were rendered stateless, barred from citizenship and basic human rights such as the right to protection. Since the late 1970s more than one million Rohingya have fled Myanmar due to brutal military action.