The Orient News Research Section

It is an open secret that the mass exodus of the Rohingyas from Myanmar to Bangladesh in 2017 and onward has caused serious impacts on Bangladesh in many forms and it is still unresolved due to the lack of interests of world powers. The Rohingyas have under gone the worst ethnic and religious persecution in Myanmar for decades. Hundreds of thousands have fled to other countries in Southeast Asia, including Malaysia, Indonesia, and Philippines.The majority have escaped to Bangladesh. The Rohingya refugees are the most oppressed and suppressed people in the present day world.

Due to the terror unleased by the Myanmar government compelled the Rohingya’s Muslim community to take refuge in Bangladesh several times. The demographic vulnerability and socio-economic condition of Bangladesh do not allow more than one million Rohingya refugees in the already densely and thickly populated country and that’s why the Bangladesh faces multiple challenges and problems, along with social, environmental, legal and financial impacts. Rohingya refugees are the most marginalized of people in the world.

On 28 September 2018, at the 73rd United Nations General Assembly, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said there are 1.1 million Rohingya refugees now in Bangladesh. Overcrowding from the recent population boom at Bangladesh's Rohingya refugee camps has placed a strain on its infrastructure. The refugees lack access to services, education, food, clean water, and proper sanitation; they are also vulnerable to natural disasters and infectious disease transmission.

The brutalities and ethnic killing of Myanmar on such large scale is the worst one in human history. Bangladesh being a poverty stricken country has shown unprecedented generosity in sheltering the Rohingya refugees. By giving asylum on such large Bangladesh is facing severe economic, social, environmental and legal problems.

The country is struggling with the issue of refugees since 1978. These Muslim refugees are known as “Rohingya.” These mass and grave killing were repeatedly happened in 2017–2018 when about 400,000 Rohingya refugees fled from the Rakhine state of Myanmar and sought refuge in the Cox’s Bazar district of Bangladesh. The settlement of Rohingya is a core problem for not only Bangladesh but for the civilized world that what is happening right under their nose. It has further added the socio-economic, political and financial challenges of an already over populated country Bangladesh. The government of Bangladesh is doing its utmost effortsby providing the possible necessities of life to those refugees despite lack of resources.

Broadly speaking, legally Bangladesh is not the final safe zone or destination for refugees because it is not a party to the 1951 Refugee Convention or its 1967 Protocol or a party to the Statelessness Conventions of 1954 and 1961. Even though Bangladesh has decided to assist the refugees, although it is not prosperous enough to accommodate the Rohingya refugees. Bangladesh, which is struggling hard to overcome this “Rohingya Crisis”. The large refugee population has imposed significant and extra- ordinary infrastructural, social, financial and environmental pressures on Bangladesh and has raised serious concerns about land insecurity a grave issue in an overpopulated country. With the emergence of COVID-19 in the camps, additional challenges have increased.

The Myanmar’s reluctance to ensure a safe return for the Rohingyas, and the realities of COVID-19, have made the prospects of repatriation increasingly dim such an attitude of Myanmar government have added insult to injury on the current crisis. The Bangladesh government has tried to address the multi-dimensional “Rohingya Crisis”, which is also being considered seriously by numerous international agencies and NGOs in Bangladesh.

There is worldwide concern regarding the atrocious committed of the Myanmar government towards the Rohingya refugees sheltered in Bangladesh (Lewa, 2011). The mass influx of Rohingya refugees’ camps at Ukhia and Teknaf Upazilais an administrative unit in Bangladesh of Cox’s Bazar, have raised several serious issues like humanitarian, economic, environmental, regional relations, and top of all, security concerns.

In the prevailing circumstances there is a need of greater role from world communities about this multi-dimensional crisis. It is time for world leaders to come up with a solution to resolve the already too much neglected conflict with a sympathetic heart it all requires an unbiased pragmatic and organized approach. such as the US, UK, Japan, Australia, and Canada should up with a clear stand and solution of the much awaited worse human problem of the refugees in an under develop country like Bangladesh.