Cox’s Bazaar, April 2:
Rohingya refugees in
On 23/3/04, a group of refugee women staged demonstration in Kutupalong camp demanding High School Education for their
children and to stop oppression of camp officials and their collaborators (Majees) on them, while Mr. Faruk
Ahmed Khan, the Secretary In-charge of Bangaldesh
Relief Ministry and Ms. Masiko Kondo, the country
representative of the UNHCR in Dhaka, visited the camp. But the refugees received no positive
response to their demand, said a refugee leader from the camp.
Besides, the refugees are continuously seeking help and cooperation
from the UNHCR and the International community to find a durable solution to
their problem as well as to educate their children in the camps, he further
said.
Due to this demands for High School Education, some refugee teachers
were expelled from their service by Ms. Razia
Sultana, the Social Service staff of CONCERN (NGO) with the cooperation of camp
officials in Nayapara camp, said a former teacher of
the camp.
In 1997 the largest school built by the UNHCR for Rohingya
refugee children was burnt down in Kutupalong refugee
camp. Since many qualified teachers have
to leave the camp for fear of arrest or forced repatriate to
The refugee leader also said that when they first entered into
It may be mentioned here that due to brutal sentiment of the Burmese
successive military rulers against the Rohingya
people, they could not educate their children in their homeland (Arakan) as par other ethnic groups of the country.
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