- Title: Rohingya refugees rally in Bangladesh to mark fifth anniversary of exodus
- Date: 25th August 2022
- Summary: COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH (AUGUST 25, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF CHILD HOLDING UP SIGN DURING RALLY AT KUTUPALONG REFUGEE CAMP READING (English): "NO MORE REFUGEE LIFE" VARIOUS OF ROHINGYA REFUGEES GATHERED FOR RALLY VARIOUS OF REFUGEES HOLDING UP SIGNS READING (English): "5 YEARS / FULL STOP" (SOUNDBITE) (Rohingya) ROHINGYA REFUGEE, JAMALIDA BEGUM, SAYING: "Today we are demonstrating as in 2017 the Burmese army killed our people in a genocide. They killed my husband and others, the military raped us, then they killed our children throwing them in fires, snatching them from the laps of mothers." REFUGEE SITTING BESIDE SIGN READING (English): "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH" (SOUNDBITE) (Rohingya) ROHINGYA REFUGEE, JAMALIDA BEGUM, SAYING: "Now, we want justice. For the last five years, we have been saying the same thing to the people of the world. But no one listened to us. Today, we are again demonstrating just to let the world know that we want justice." VARIOUS OF ROHINGYA REFUGEES HOLDING UP SIGNS AND BANNERS (SOUNDBITE) (Rohingya) ROHINGYA REFUGEE, ABUL KASIM, SAYING: "We are now ready to go back (Myanmar) but our demand is that we must get our citizenship rights. If they agree we are ready to go back. Bangladesh is not our soil, we don’t want to stay here. If we go, we will not stay in camps (in Myanmar), we want to go straight to our own homes." VARIOUS OF ROHINGYA CHILDREN VARIOUS OF ROHINGYA CHILDREN SHOUTING (Rohingya): "WE WANT TO GO BACK TO MYANMAR" VARIOUS OF ELDERLY MAN AT RALLY POLICEMEN AT RALLY
- Embargoed: 8th September 2022 09:26
- Keywords: Bangladesh Cox's Bazar Kutupalong Myanmar Rohingya camp refugee
- Location: COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH
- City: COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH
- Country: Bangladesh
- Topics: Asia / Pacific,Race Relations / Ethnic Issues,Society/Social Issues
- Reuters ID: LVA001056025082022RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Rohingya refugees rallied in a camp in Bangladesh on Thursday (August 25), marking five years since the start of a brutal military crackdown in Myanmar that forced more than 730,000 to flee across the border.
The vast majority fled to the Bangladeshi border town of Cox's Bazar during a military crackdown in 2017 that the United Nations has said was carried out with genocidal intent. Myanmar denies genocide, saying it was waging a legitimate campaign against insurgents who attacked police posts.
"Today, we are again demonstrating just to let the world know that we want justice," said a refugee, Jamalida Begum. Another person at the rally, held at the Kutupalong Refugee Camp, said he was keen to return to Myanmar but wanted citizenship rights to be accorded.
More than a million Rohingya are living in squalid camps in southern Bangladesh comprising the world's largest refugee settlement, with little prospect of returning to Myanmar, where they are mostly denied citizenship and other rights.
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