• Rohingya Muslim children slice meat from a slaughtered cow at the Thet Kel Pyin camp in Rakhine state during the Eid al-Adha celebrations on AWednesday. About 120,000 Rohingya Muslims remain in squalied camps in Myanmar's Rakhine state living under apartheid-like conditions, cut off from adequate health care and unable to travel while more than 700,000 fled to Bangladesh during a violent army crackdown in August that the U.S. and U.N. have called ethnic cleansing. | PHYO HEIN KYAW / VIA AFP-JIJI
    Rohingya Muslim children slice meat from a slaughtered cow at the Thet Kel Pyin camp in Rakhine state during the Eid al-Adha celebrations on AWednesday. About 120,000 Rohingya Muslims remain in squalied camps in Myanmar's Rakhine state living under apartheid-like conditions, cut off from adequate health care and unable to travel while more than 700,000 fled to Bangladesh during a violent army crackdown in August that the U.S. and U.N. have called ethnic cleansing. | PHYO HEIN KYAW / VIA AFP-JIJI

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GENEVA – The United Nations warned on Thursday of what it described as a lost generation of Muslim Rohingya children, with half a million in refugee camps in Bangladesh facing dangers including disease and floods and those still in Myanmar lacking access to proper education.

One year since 700,000 Rohingyas fled a violent crackdown by Myanmar security forces in Rakhine state, the U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF) gave a bleak assessment of the outlook for children on either side of the border.

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