Arakan News Agency
The story of the children who lost their parents, one of them or their relatives, and their children, Is the talk of Rohingya in refugee camps.
About seven months after the Myanmar army launched its campaign against the villages of Rohingya, about 700,000 people have fled to Bangladesh, and tens of thousands remain missing or unaccounted for.
A study by parliamentarians from the ASEAN Human Rights Organization found that more than 43,000 Rohingya children in Bangladesh’s vast camps lack at least one parent and others have lost children, brothers and cousins.
Questions about their fate – and widespread complaints that Myanmar is not helping to explain them – raise tensions as the two countries negotiate a plan to resettle some of the refugees.
Myanmar considers Rohingya illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and denies them citizenship, although many have lived in the country for generations. The United Nations says the Myanmar campaign bears the hallmarks of “genocide.”
Human rights groups say that instead of helping to collect the dead, Myanmar has bulldozed the sites of the massacres to hide their crimes. Amnesty International has released satellite images, which was completely burned down.
“Myanmar has done absolutely nothing to help reunite families,” says Mark Farmner, director of Burma’s UK group.
“Zaw Htay,” spokesman for the largest civilian gathering in Myanmar, will not be possible to identify the dead, and missing until the Rohingya refugees are deported, because they only know for sure who are among their communities.
Melissa Domenard, a delegate to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), said her organization was working to connect separated family members, but progress was slow because there was no formal list to work with.
Other refugees in Bangladesh tried to find people alone among the camps. The newspaper quoted Kamal Hussein, a Rohingya refugee, as saying he had helped reunite several hundred families, but stopped in February because families were found very rare.
