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What happened recently to trigger this exodus? On August 25, 2017, Myanmar state media reported that 12 security officers had been killed by Rohingya insurgents. The subsequent army crackdown in Rakhine state and ensuing violence and destruction of villages triggered an exodus. Within two weeks, an astonishing 270,000 Rohingyas had fled on foot and by boat to Bangladesh.


Where are the Rohingya now? Bangladesh has,


for decades, been home to hundreds


of thousands of Rohingya refugees. In 2017, to cope with the recent


arrivals, UNHCR expanded the previously


established refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, and provided relief and shelter items. The Bangladeshi government has allocated some 2,000 acres of land close to Kutupalong camp on which family tents and temporary communal shelters have been erected to shelter new arrivals. There are still many Rohingya remaining in Rakhine state on whose behalf UNHCR has called for an end to the violence, and access to provide much needed humanitarian assistance.


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October 24, 2017—A young baby sleeps soundly among some 5,000 people being relocated to a new site near Kutupalong refugee camp.


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