Rohingya refugees stage 'Let's go home' demonstration in Bangladesh

20 June 2022
Rohingya refugees stage 'Let's go home' demonstration in Bangladesh

 

Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh stage demonstrations demanding repatriation to Myanmar, where they fled a brutal military crackdown five years ago. Almost a million Rohingya are confined to bamboo and tarpaulin shacks in 34 squalid camps in southeast Bangladesh, with no work, poor sanitation and little access to education. Their increasingly restrictive host country has banned them from holding rallies since they staged a massive 100,000-strong protest in August 2019 but authorities allowed several groups of Rohingya to hold simultaneous "Let's go Home" marches and rallies ahead of World Refugee Day (June 20).