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UNHCR’s Asia- Pacific Director Visited the Rohingya Refugee Camps
Cox’s Bazar, December 06: A team of UN High Commissioner of Refugees
led by Asia-Pacific Director Janet Lim visited the two Rohingya
Camps on 4th of December 2004, said a refugee leader when Kaladan Press asked him by telephone.
At first the delegation visited
the Kutupalong refugee camp at about
Lim arrived in
While visited the Kutupalong camp, the delegation asked the refugees about
the incidents of 18th and 19th of November 2004 and they
took photos the wounded refugees in a violent clashes at Kutupalong
camp in Ukhiya upazila.
They also inquired the nearby Bengali villagers about the incidents. But, they
didn’t say anything to the refugees, said another refugee leader who refused to
say his name for his security purpose.
The UN team also met local
officials, representatives of NGOs and some refugee leaders of both the camps,
said officials.
Expressing concern about the
government crackdown after violent incidents in the Kutupalong
camp, the UN team urged the
The present situation of the two
refugee camps is normal. But, so far some refugees are not allowed to enter the
camp that fled the camp while the incidents were occurred at the camp. They are
also cancelled from the list of the refugees but their families remain in the
camp. They know nothing about the repatriation and there is no talking about
the repatriation, said the refugee leader.
The repatriation process has
remained stalled since August 9 when some seven members of two Rohingya families returned to their homeland.
At present, about 20,000 Rohingyas
are living in the two refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar
district. ##
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