U.N. warns of 'lost generation' of Rohingya children


  • World
  • Thursday, 23 Aug 2018

Rohingya refugee children attend an Arabic school to learn to recite the Koran at Jamtoli camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, January 22, 2018. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain - RC1EDE937F60

GENEVA (Reuters) - 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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