Displaced population: A Rohingya refugee child playing with a kite at Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia, Cox’s Bazar District. — AFP
UNITED Nations rights chief Michelle Bachelet arrived in Bangladesh yesterday for a four-day visit that will include a trip to squalid camps housing nearly a million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.
The exodus of Rohingya was sparked by a 2017 Myanmar army offensive against the mostly Muslim minority, with the UN’s highest court last month giving the green light to a landmark case accusing the Buddhist-majority country of genocide.
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