The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Sunday called for an immediate provision of $ 83.7 million to provide urgent needs for six months to some 500,000 Rohingya refugees fleeing ethnic cleansing in Burma to Bangladesh.
In a statement, the Rohingya refugees’ refugee crisis is the fastest-growing refugee influx in Asia in recent decades and in some cases up to 20,000 people a day to Cox’s Bazaar.
The UNHCR representative in the Gulf Cooperation Council states Khalid Khalifa said that UNHCR has declared the highest degree of emergency to address this crisis, pointing out that among the refugees a large number of unaccompanied children and the arrival of many of the new fugitives are traumatized by severe violence and physical abuse In the Arakan region.
He pointed out that UNHCR seeks to provide basic daily necessities, strengthen local capacity to host refugees, promote peaceful coexistence with host communities, and support Bangladeshi authorities in establishing new sites and improving infrastructure for their service.
Khalifa expressed his thanks and appreciation to the Government of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz for his timely commitment to help thousands of refugees by allocating $ 15 million through the King Salman Relief and Humanitarian Center. Saving lives of refugees.
