Aljazeera, Oct. 22, 2020
The UNHCR says millions more needed, but international community also needs to do more to find solution to crisis.
The United Kingdom has announced new funding for tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees now living in camps in Bangladesh after fleeing a brutal military crackdown in Myanmar three years ago, as civil society groups urged the countries convening the conference to acknowledge that genocide had been committed against the ethnic minority.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab outlined a further 47.5 million British pounds ($63 million) in aid, for the mostly Muslim Rohingya and to help Bangladesh deal with the coronavirus pandemic and its frequent natural disasters.
The money was pledged as part of a virtual aid conference which starts on Thursday and is co-hosted by the UK, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR), the United States and the European Union.
“Today I urge the world not to turn away from the Rohingya’s suffering and to take the action necessary to allow them to safely return to the homes they fled in terror,” Raab said in a statement.
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