With about 10,000 to 20,000 new Rohingya refugees arriving in Bangladesh a day, the UN agencies fear that the total number may reach one million by the year-end if the situation in Myanmar remains unchanged.
“We are getting concerned,” Mohammed Abdiker Mohamud, director of operations and emergency at the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), said at a media briefing on Thursday after his visit to Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district.
Mohamud called for international help to deal with the crisis.
He said international community is “not yet doing enough” in response to the humanitarian crisis created in Cox’s Bazar after the new 400,000 Rohingyas arrived fleeing violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine State since August 25.
“More needs to be done,” he said, appreciating the Bangladesh government for its emergency response to the crisis.
Okoth-Obbo said Bangladesh is facing “quite a serious humanitarian” situation as about 400,000 Rohingya refugees entered the country within two and a half weeks, according to bdnews24.com.
