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U.N. warns of 'lost generation' of Rohingya children as half a million languish in refugee camps

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

Reuters

Aug 23, 2018

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.

"We are talking about risking the loss or the potential loss of a generation of Rohingya children," UNICEF spokesman Simon Ingram told news conference in Geneva after spending six weeks in the camps in Cox's Bazar.

U.N. warns of 'lost generation' of Rohingya children as half a million languish in refugee camps

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