Thousands of Myanmar Rohingya shops demolished, Bangladesh confirms


COX'S BAZAR (Bangladesh), Jan 4 (AFP): Bangladesh authorities have bulldozed more than 3,000 Myanmar-Rohingya-run shops since last month, a government official confirmed Tuesday, as struggling refugee families voiced their dismay at the demolitions.

About 850,000 members of the stateless Muslim minority are packed into overcrowded displacement camps in Bangladesh, most having fled neighbouring Myanmar after a 2017 military clampdown that prompted an international genocide investigation.

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