Bangladesh shuts largest private school in Myanmar Rohingya camps


In this picture taken on Sunday, March 27, 2022, Rohingya refugee children collect drinking water in a school in Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia. Bangladesh has shut the largest private school for Rohingya refugees, officials said on Monday (March 28), in a further blow to the educational prospects of thousands of children stuck in vast camps in the country's southeast. - AFP

KUTUPALONG, March 28, 2022 (AFP): Sam JAHAN Bangladesh has shut the largest private school for Rohingya refugees, officials said Monday, in a further blow to the educational prospects of thousands of children stuck in vast camps in the country's southeast.

Bangladesh has been sheltering about 850,000 Rohingya refugees from neighbouring Myanmar since a military offensive in 2017 that the United States this month designated as "genocide".

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