“Generation Lost” looms for Rohingya refugee children, says Unicef
Rohingya refugee children who lack proper education in camps in Bangladesh could become a “ generation lost”, the United Nations said on Thursday, a year after Myanmar’s army began a crackdown that has forced more than 700,000 people to flee the country.
The lives and futures of more than 380,000 children in refugee camps in Bangladesh are in peril, while hundreds of thousands of Rohingya children still in Myanmar are cut off from aid, said a report by the UN children’s agency (Unicef).
Bangladesh prohibits refugees from receiving formal education, because the government is concerned that the predominantly Muslim Rohingya population may become a “permanent fixture”, according to Unicefspokesman Alastair Lawson-Tancred.
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