2.  “I was born in Burma but the Burmese government says I
don‟t belong there. I grew up in Bangladesh. But Bangladesh
government says, I cannot stay here. As a Rohingya, I feel I
am caught between a crocodile and a snake.”
-19 years old refugee ,Nayapara camp.
 Yes, the Rohingya are neither citizen of Burma nor
Bangladesh.
 The Bangladeshi government divided the Rohingya into
two categories- recognized refugees living in official camp
and unrecognized refugees living in unofficial camps site
or among Bangladeshi communities.
 Now 28,700 refugees reside in two camps of Kutupalung
and Nayapara in the south-eastern district of Cox‟s Bazer.

3.  Accordingly Amnesty International the Muslim Rohingya people
have continued to suffer from human rights violation under the
Burmese Junta since 1978, and many have fled to neighboring
Bangladesh as a result.
 Every 1 dollar donation, refugee gets 35 cents in Bangladesh.
 They are like a football being kicked from one to
another. Then are not wanted in Myanmar, so as they
were not wanted in Bangladesh.
 Here I try to describe some feature of their life.

4. In Kutapalong camp, up to 16
refugees live in a room that
is 10‟‟ ×10”.The hats made
of filthy plastic and bamboo
cane. Every year between
May and October the Naaf
river regularly bursts it‟s
bank and flow into the
camp.

5.  The average household size is 6-7 persons .By the report of
WFP „The houses are small, crowded, and inadequate for
healthy living‟.
 ‘ This house is too small for a husband and wife and
children and parents and brothers and sisters. Privacy is
needed, but not maintained when we all sleep and live in
one room’.
– 31-40-year-old male refugee in Nayapara,household
size of eight.
 The EEC has offered a fund to provide these people‟s basic
needs, but the government has not responded anything.

6. A recent morality and
nutrition survey showed that
acute malnutrition was
prevent in 16˙8% of 6˙59
month children, with 2˙85
server cases, chronic
malnutrition was present in
51˙95% of the children.

7.  WFP discovered in 2000 year that the refugees
were consuming an average of 1600 kilocalories
each day.
 The food economy group calculated that the
refugees were getting only 88 % of their ration
each week.
 To buy vegetable, child food, cloths etc, they
clandestinely sell rice and lentils stealthily
cheap outside the refugee camps.

8.  The Bangladesh Government do not want the
children to be educated in Bengali language.
 In Kutapalong, mid 1996 the GOB
(Government of Bangladesh) formal schooling
in some camps. In Naypara camp, it was not
until January 2000 when the children could
start school.
 The education levels provided are primary to
class five.

9.  No, I do not feel safe in the camp. I am especially
afraid for our young girls.
– Woman refugee in Kutupalong, in her thirties.
 Primary women and children were forced to collect
water from walls nearby village but faced regular
attacks.
 There is no sanitation system in both camps women
are frequently attacked and raped when they go to
latrines or to the forest to collect firewood.
 View of one Refugees woman “Any where better for
us. Even the fire, the sea or desert. It‟s better to kill
us”.

10.  I am happy here in Bangladesh. I am grateful to
Bangladesh for giving us shelter. In Burma, we
could not sleep because we were always afraid.
-refugee women in their 30s in Nayapara
camp.
 More than 50 solar lights have been installed in an
effort to improved security, and latrines, bathing
cubicles and tube wells have been replaced to
UNICHR slandered.
 WFP has instituted a few vocational training
programmers‟ targeting particularly refugees women
and girls. More than 1000 adults and adolescents
have attended adult literacy classes.

11.  Refugees involved in different types of anti-
social and criminal activities like
smuggling, prostitution, and underground
politics activities in Bangladesh.
 Bangladesh‟s Minister of Food and Disasters
Management Abdul Razzaq blamed western
countries for „keeping the problem alive‟.
 He also told reporters „This is not possible
for a poor country like Bangladesh to
increase support to the Rohingya as keeping
the problem solve‟.

12.  1.To provide them with adequate
protection, access to livelihood and other
basic services.
 2.The U.S government, together with other
recipient countries should initiate large-scale
resettlement programs Rohingya refugees.
 3.To immediately cease arrests, push-backs
and forced displacement of the unregistered
Rohingya population in Cox‟s Bazar and
Bandarban Districts

13.  The Myanmar‟s President gave assurance to
Bangladesh‟s President to back the Rohingya
refugees from Bangladesh after verification
by Myanmar‟s‟ authorities.
 Rohingya prefer to live in Bangladesh than
Myanmar.
 But Bangladesh is no able to carry the
burdens of Rohingya refugees. We have to
wait to see what will be happen in future?