Coxs Bazaar, Bangladesh (AP) — initially faced persecution in their country. Then a deadly repression by the Myanmar army sent hundreds of thousands of dollars into Bangladesh. Many Rohingyas have been living in refugee towns from home to their cars since then.
The aid, which is largely managed by the United States, is in danger of cutting after US President Donald Trump’s order to provide most of his country’s foreign aid. For more than one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, it means that they can be left for accommodation with a small amount of food and money.
No cut has happened so far. But the UN World Food Program said it would have no choice but to reduce food rations to $6 a month from the previous $12.50 in the southern coast of Cox, where Rohingya lives in broad camps.
It was not clear whether the World Food Program’s decision was directly related to the Trump administration’s actions, but UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres criticized the United States and other European countries for stopping or cutting their aid budget.
The United Nations Food Agency has no choice but to reduce food rations
To ensure that a large part of the money enough to support Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh comes from the US Agency for International Development, but the government and dozens of aid organizations are monitoring their daily needs. However, any decline in humanitarian aid can have a great impact on the life of Rohingya refugees.
“The Cox market is a zero ground for the effects of budget cuts on those who need disappointment,” Guterres said during a visit to the camps last week. He said the strict reduction of humanitarian aid is “cine” and called on the international community to continue to support Rohingya refugees.
Emergency workers have warned that reducing aid – if they are effective in April – will disrupt the lives of refugees, especially women and children. “We have no choice but to reduce food rations since April,” World Food Program spokesman Coun Lee said.
Rohingya says cutting aid makes their lives impossible
Before he was forced to be forced to, Farmer Mahab Alam was an influential figure in his community, working as the head of a local government agency in a village in the western state of Rakhine. Today, the 56-year-old says the broken and his nine-member family relies only on help, because like other refugees, he is not officially allowed to work outside refugee camps in the Cox market.
Alam is worried, even shocked, since he first heard that food rations could be reduced from next month to half.
“We cannot live on those (6 dollars per month), and we will die here,” said Alam, who has been living in the camp since
Alam said the $6 monthly allowance is enough for the minimum amount of food. According to UNICEF, more than 15 percent of children in the camps are severely malnourished.
“Previously, we were able to eat something, we have medicine, and fish, but now we can’t have any of them,” he said.
Alam’s concerns are not only limited to food access and financial support. He said cutting off aid could provide unrest in camps, where refugee groups have sometimes contacted basic things and to establish dominance.
“The number of thieves and robbers is increasing here, people are being kidnapped, things are stolen and unrest increase, the situation will get worse,” Alam said.
He said he would like to return to Myanmar — but only if there is a guarantee of safety. In fact, a return is not an option for refugees, because Myanmar, the military, is immersed in the civil war.
children with the most in danger
Aid cuts – if it comes – can create a major concern for the camp residents who need money for medical treatment.
Tomida, 46, who arrived in Cox’s Cox market in 2017, will be very difficult for us.
“We are worried about how to feed our children,” he said. How do we send them to school?” Ms.
He added that the monthly food ration of $ 12.50 for each member of his family has already been extended to the border, and the budget shortage can only make things worse.