KALADAN NEWS
Dated:
About 10-thousand refugees inundated in Teknaf
flash-floods
Teknaf, May 25:
About 10-thousand unofficial Rohingya refugees in Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar District
have been inundated due to flash-floods and onrush of water from
Due
to excessive rainfall and gusty to squally wind coincided with the tide of
The
goods and utensils of the refugees have been washed away by the floodwater and
gusty to squally winds while the children, women and elders have been facing
acute difficulties in the camp.
The
refugees made their camp at Dhumdamia of Teknaf in last October 2004, after shifting from Teknaf upazila as the local
goon’s disturbance to the refugees. They are not registered neither by UNHCR
nor
There
are about 10-thousand of 1,100 families refugee are staying in the camp while a
report of the Center for Development Studies (CDS), Dhaka, Bangladesh said that
over 600,000 unofficial Rohingya refugees are staying
across the country.
When
asked a refugee woman named Sakina Khatun said, “Sometimes, police arrest male refugees
without any ground and file cases against them with false accusations while
they go outside of the camp for works to support their families.”
Similarly,
the official refugees of the Nayapara and Kutupalong go out of the camp for works to maintain their
families. 4 refugees from Kutupalong camp were
arrested by police on May 19, accusing them spying for Burmese government while
they were working nearby village of the camp. Later on, they were sent to Cox’s
Bazar jail through Ukiya
Police Station.
A
refugee named Mariam Khatun
said, “I have no husband and he died since one year before. I have one son and
two daughters and there age is under 10. Now, our huts are demolished by gusty
wind and inundate by flood. I have no food to feed my children. I do not know
how to feed them and where to go to stay this night.”##
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