A Humanitarian Plea to Save Lives of Rohingyas at Sea
Author : Nur Ahmed
22 Jan 2023

A refugee 'crisis' creates multifaceted problems for the host country, and the issues get complicated over a certain course of time. Otherwise, it would not have been called a 'crisis'. Presently, in addition to various settlement problems of Rohingya refugees, Bangladesh has been facing a tragic attempt to migrate more than a million of them by sea route, becoming a crisis within a crisis. It is not just a problem for Bangladesh; rather, the South Asian and Southeast Asian nations need to be more concerned about this rehabilitation issue. The possible sinking of a boat in the last month carrying 180 Rohingya people has made the year 2022 the deadliest year after 2013 and 2014.