{"id":212233,"date":"2023-03-06T00:05:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T18:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=212233"},"modified":"2023-03-06T00:05:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T18:35:51","slug":"fire-hits-crowded-rohingya-refugee-camp-in-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/03\/06\/fire-hits-crowded-rohingya-refugee-camp-in-bangladesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire hits crowded Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">COX\u2019S BAZAR, Bangladesh, 5 Mar: A massive fire raced through a crammed refugee camp for Rohingya Muslims in southern Bangladesh on Sunday, leaving thousands homeless, a fire official and the United Nations said.<br \/>\nNo casualties were reported immediately at Balukhali camp in Cox\u2019s Bazar district, said Emdadul Haque, a fire service official.<br \/>\nThe UNHCR in Bangladesh said in a tweet that Rohingya refugee volunteers were responding to the fire with the agency and its partners providing support. It provided no further details.<br \/>\nMore than 1 million Rohingya refugees have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar over several decades, including about 740,000 who crossed the border starting in August 2017, when the Myanmar military launched a brutal crackdown.<br \/>\nConditions in Myanmar has worsened since a military takeover in 2021, and attempts to send them back have failed.<br \/>\nLast year, the United States said the oppression of Rohingya in Myanmar amounts to genocide after U.S. authorities confirmed accounts of mass atrocities against civilians by the military in a systematic campaign against the ethnic minority. Muslim Rohingya face widespread discrimination in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, where most are denied citizenship and many other rights. AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COX\u2019S BAZAR, Bangladesh, 5 Mar: A massive fire raced through a crammed refugee camp for Rohingya Muslims in southern Bangladesh on Sunday, leaving thousands homeless, a fire official and the United Nations said. No casualties were reported immediately at Balukhali camp in Cox\u2019s Bazar district, said Emdadul Haque, a fire service official. The UNHCR in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-212233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}