Bangladesh needs a better plan for dealing with the refugee crisis
News Desk:
Bangladesh’s hosting of Rohingya refugees is unequaled in the current context of global anti-immigration sentiment.
It’s hard to comprehend how 165 million people are living in a land area equal to the state of Arkansas (where the population is only 3 million). Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries on planet Earth, with under $2,000 per capita, and still has given shelter to over a million refugees from Myanmar since 2017. The refugees have been crossing the Bangladeshi border since the early 90s, but this has escalated in recent years due to the premeditated massacres carried out against them.
After fleeing from the Rakhine state of Myanmar, 37,300 square kilometres of beautiful land by the Bay of Bengal, these million plus people are now living in cramped refugee camps in Bangladesh — roughly half a square metre per person. Perhaps dealing with poverty and disasters regularly has helped the Bangladeshi people not to feel threatened by these Rohingya who entered their country.
Bangladesh’s hosting of Rohingya refugees is unequaled in the current context of global anti-immigration sentiment.
It’s hard to comprehend how 165 million people are living in a land area equal to the state of Arkansas (where the population is only 3 million). Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries on planet Earth, with under $2,000 per capita, and still has given shelter to over a million refugees from Myanmar since 2017. The refugees have been crossing the Bangladeshi border since the early 90s, but this has escalated in recent years due to the premeditated massacres carried out against them.
After fleeing from the Rakhine state of Myanmar, 37,300 square kilometres of beautiful land by the Bay of Bengal, these million plus people are now living in cramped refugee camps in Bangladesh — roughly half a square metre per person. Perhaps dealing with poverty and disasters regularly has helped the Bangladeshi people not to feel threatened by these Rohingya who entered their country.