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‘Comprehensive’ solution needed to end mass displacement of Rohingya
It’s been five years since more than 700,000 ethnic Rohingya fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh to escape a brutal military crackdown.
The UN chief on Thursday called on the international community to find “comprehensive, durable and inclusive solutions” to help end their plight.
Some one million refugees remain in the vast camps of Cox’s Bazar, without any immediate prospect of being able to return home, which more than 150,000 mostly-Muslim Rohingya are still “confined in camps” in their native Rakhine state, said a statement issued on behalf of UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
And following the…