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Saturday, May 25, 2019

Muslim refugees call for UNHCR-issued IDs

MYANMAR TIMES
24 May 2019 
Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (centre), arrives at Khaung Doke Khar refugee camp in Sittwe township on Wednesday. Photo - EPA
 
Muslim refugees at camps in Sittwe township of Rakhine State have asked the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to give them ID cards as proof of their refugee status.

The request was made during talks between UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi and the refugees in Sittwe on Wednesday.

The refugees said the cards would help them return to their villages.

Mohamad Husein, 55, a refugee at Khaung Doke Khar camp in Sittwe, said on Thursday they want the cards so they can enjoy the rights of ordinary citizens and freedom of movement.

“We have lived for a long time, but we have neither freedom of movement nor any identification. We have difficulty accessing health care and education for our children,” he said.

During Grandi’s three-day visit to the state, he talked with Muslim refugees who have been living in the camps since 2012, when Rakhine’s inter-communal violence first erupted.

According to a state government official, Grandi went to two camps in Sittwe to observe the situation firsthand and to talk with refugees.

Grandi arrived in Myanmar on Monday for a five-day visit to the country, his first since August 2017. The UNHCR chief visited Muslim refugee camps in Bangladesh in April.

Link :https://www.mmtimes.com/news/muslim-refugees-call-unhcr-issued-ids.html

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