{"id":1616,"date":"2018-04-05T03:52:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T03:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2018-04-05T03:52:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T03:52:23","slug":"monsoons-could-result-in-enormous-deaths-among-rohingya-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2018\/04\/05\/monsoons-could-result-in-enormous-deaths-among-rohingya-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsoons could result in ‘enormous deaths’ among Rohingya refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"

The coming monsoon season could result in \u201cenormous deaths\u201d among Rohingya people from Myanmar living in refugee camps in neighbouring\u00a0Bangladesh<\/a>, a group of international advisers has warned, because the camps are not built to withstand storms.<\/p>\n

Rights groups say 700,000 mostly\u00a0Muslim Rohingya have fled violence and crossed the border<\/a>\u00a0from Myanmar\u2019s Rakhine state since August and most live in flimsy, bamboo-and-plastic structures perched on what were once forested hills at Cox\u2019s Bazar.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are at this time in a race against time. For us, the monsoons are coming. The camps of almost 1 million people are not built to withstand monsoon,\u201d Kobsak Chutikul, from the advisory group, said at a press conference in Singapore on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be enormous deaths if all parties do not move to some understanding on repatriation, on aid.\u201d<\/p>\n

Because a repatriation deal between the neighbouring countries has been delayed, Bangladesh is racing to prepare new homes on a nearby island, called Bhasan Char, before the monsoons that could arrive later this month.<\/p>\n

The advisory board for the committee for implementation of the recommendations on Rakhine state was set up by\u00a0Myanmar<\/a>\u00a0last year to advise on ways of adopting the findings of an earlier commission headed by the former UN secretary general Kofi Annan.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>Malaysian navy officers detain a boat carrying Rohingya refugees off Langkawi. Photograph: AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Computer modelling by the United Nations high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) shows that more than 100,000 refugees will be threatened by landslides and floods in the coming monsoons. The rains typically begin in April and peak in July, according to the Bangladesh meteorological department.<\/p>\n

Chutikul\u2019s comments came as\u00a0Malaysia<\/a>\u00a0intercepted a boat 56 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar off its northern island of Langkawi after a storm.<\/p>\n

Malaysia will allow them to enter on humanitarian grounds, with rights groups expecting further attempts at perilous journeys by sea.<\/p>\n

The Rohingya fled their homes in Rakhine into Bangladesh after\u00a0militant attacks in August last year sparked a military<\/a>\u00a0crackdown that the United Nations and western countries have said constitutes ethnic cleansing.<\/p>\n

Buddhist-majority Myanmar rejects that charge, saying its forces have been waging a legitimate campaign against \u201cterrorists\u201d who attacked government forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The coming monsoon season could result in \u201cenormous deaths\u201d among Rohingya people from Myanmar living in refugee camps in neighbouring\u00a0Bangladesh, a group of international advisers has warned, because the camps are not built to withstand storms. Rights groups say 700,000 mostly\u00a0Muslim Rohingya have fled violence and crossed the border\u00a0from Myanmar\u2019s Rakhine state since August and most live in flimsy, bamboo-and-plastic… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1617,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions\/1617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}