Aid dwindles for Rohingya refugees as money goes to Ukraine, other crises

The Washington Post

By Rebecca Tan,Mohammad Faruque
March 15, 2023

Police guard the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Feb. 12, 2023. (Turjoy Chowdhury for The Washington Post))

DHAKA, Bangladesh — The world’s largest refugee encampment, home at the moment to roughly 1 million Rohingya, is set to receive less than half the funding required to support it this year amid a drastic drop in donations, according to United Nations and Bangladeshi officials. International donors, including the United States, have redirected their money to Ukraine and other crises.

The exact shortfall has yet to be determined but has already led to reductions in food rations for the Rohingya refugees gathered on the southeastern coast of Bangladesh, most of whom fled a violent campaign of ethnic cleansing by the Myanmar military in 2017.