The common thing visible in Rohingyas face is “help”. They are hungry, sick and needy.
They are already holding a loose heart where many of them lost their family member, home and all asset. With broken heart Rohingyas are surviving hold back the last prospect. When they hear about any relief activities near their camp, they gathered to collect those relief. A smile get visible in their faces after getting the relief. If the relief find inessential or already they have then they sold the relief to any middleman at times. They save the money to buy other necessary things and food for their family. If you notice their foot then will be able to predict their walking way and living places current situation. The number of children in Rohingya families are multiple due to lack of birth control measures and knowledge of family planning. However, agencies now started to counsel Rohingya on family planning.
Around 9 lakh Rohingya refugee is currently living in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh (IOM, 2018). They are living in extremely difficult conditions who are already in vulnerable situation. The space is also very much limited to build any important infrastructure. The limited space doesn’t allow vulnerable structures re-positioning in safer places also. At present both Government, Non-Government and humanitarian Organizations raising their supportive hand towards Rohingya people.
Governments of Bangladesh started bilateral consultation after the influx with Myanmar to repatriate Rohingya refugees.
UN Security Council has a number of discussion with the representative of Bangladesh and Myanmar on the human rights situation of Rohingyas. Bangladesh and Myanmar was also signed an agreement on November 23, 2017 naming ‘Arrangement on Return of Displaced Persons from Rakhyine State’ and prospected that repatriation of Rohingyas will start within next two months. But the repatriation has not been happening yet which is bad sign for the future of Rohingya population.
Ursula Mueller, U.N.’s Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs has done a six-day visit on April, 2018 to Myanmar. After the visit she said that Myanmar currently not ready to repatriate Rohingya refugees (Source-Reuters).
Initially Bangladesh was submitted a list of 8,000 Rohingya refugees where Myanmar said that they are willing to take back fewer than 400 Rohingya from Bangladesh. Myanmar’s permanent secretary for foreign affairs, U Myint Thu, said that only 374 is eligible for repatriation in the list. Though he didn’t mention any timeline to return those refugees. Myanmar blamed Bangladesh that for submitted missing and incomplete information for the majority of the refugees. ( Source-The Guardian)
The current situation raise some questions. What about their future? Will they able to get back in their own land? How long they will be able to sustain here without any work and living facilities? Will they be able to educate their children?
