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Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary General Hissein Brahim Taha today visited several Rohingya camps in Ukhiya of Cox’s Bazar.
He reached Cox’s Bazar by air on Monday morning and went to Kutupalong Four Extension Camp in Ukhiya. Later, he visited several other camps in Ukhiya.
At the camps, the OIC Secretary General held a meeting with representatives of the Refugee Affairs Commission, Rohingya representatives and officials from various NGOs and INGOs.
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Additional Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (Deputy Secretary) Md Shamsud Douza said the OIC Secretary General exchanged views with the Rohingyas and talked about their problems.
He also visited BRAC’s youth centre, tree plantation programme and other activities of various organisations. Later, he returned to Dhaka.
On Sunday, he urged the member states to do more and help the Gambia with funds to run the case in the International Court of Justice on Rohingya genocide.
Jul 29, 2023
It has been close to six years since hundreds of thousands of Rohingya faced a deadly genocide by Myanmar’s military and fled the country in search of protection and refuge in neighbouring Bangladesh. The Rohingya population has been undergoing persecution, discrimination, arbitrary arrests, and atrocities in Myanmar for over seven decades. Their condition is alarmingly […]