UN envoy on visit to Rohingya camp in Bangladesh

Описание: (19 Dec 2021) A special rapporteur of the United Nations said Sunday that the international community should build a better partnership with Bangladesh and cut off Myanmar military in dealing with the Rohingya refugee crisis by putting pressure on Myanmar from where they have fled.  
Tom Andrews, U.N.'s Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, said in Dhaka that the international community, if necessary, should block sources of revenues flowing into Myanmar's military.
"I think the international community can also do a lot more to bring pressure to bear on Myanmar," he told a news conference.
Andrews is visiting Bangladesh where he met the Rohingya refugees, officials of the international agencies and the government to review the refugee crisis in the country.
During his mission, the U.N. envoy met with the refugees in Cox's Bazar refugee camps in Bangladesh as well as some of those relocated to a remote island —Bhasan Char.
In October this year, the United Nations and Bangladesh's government signed an agreement to work together to help relocate Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char island.
More than 19,000 Rohingya have already been moved to the Bhasan Char island from crammed camps near the Myanmar border.
"Nearly every Rohingya person I spoke with on this mission, whether in the Kutupalong camps or on Bashan Char, wants to return home as soon as they can do so voluntarily, safely, sustainably, and with dignity. They want to go back home," Andrews said.
The Rohingya are a Muslim ethnic group, over 700,000 of whom fled persecution and violence in neighboring Myanmar in August 2017.
Bangladesh has been sheltering 1.1 million of the refugees in crowded camps near its coast.
A U.N.-sponsored investigation in 2018 recommended the prosecution of Myanmar’s top military commanders on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for the violence against the Rohingya.

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