Médecins Sans Frontières - Situation update: Rohingya, six years since the exodus

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB164964

Date taken / Date Recorded 07/08/2023 11:34 PM

Expiration date 02/08/2028

Country Bangladesh

Commissioning section MSF-AUSTRALIA

Photographer / videographer / producer Victor Caringal

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Additional Information / Shotlist 00:00:00:00 - 00:00:01:16
It’s been really difficult
to come back here

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to the Bangladesh Rohingya camps.

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I thought I'd seen the worst of it

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in 2017, when hundreds of thousands

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of Rohingya were fleeing violence.

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I remember we treated gunshot wounds,

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burns, multiple disease outbreaks.

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The scenes were heartbreaking.

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Listening to the people
who had just lost their homes,

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moving into a crowded camp
with nothing but bamboo

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and tarpaulin
over their heads.

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It was simply a memory
I can never forget.

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But now, six years on,

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they're facing an unprecedented
set of problems.

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One – the largest scabies
outbreak in the world.

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Over 400,000 Rohingya
have contracted this disease.

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Two – reduced international aid.

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And three – inadequate
water and sanitation services.

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They still have no legal status

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and no right to work.

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They have no choice but to depend
entirely on humanitarian aid.

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These are people who
are forced from their homes

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by persecution and violence

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and they rely on this
international aid.

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And now their lives are
getting worse day by day.

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Now is not the time
to decrease funding.

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You talk to the people here and
the desperation is inescapable.

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How can anyone survive on
$8 a month for their food,

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all the while being told
they can't work nor

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get a proper education?

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Imagine that.

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Take a second. $8 a month.

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That's less than
10 cents a meal.

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Simply put, containing the Rohingya

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in refugee camps indefinitely
while reducing funding

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is neither a coherent humanitarian strategy

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nor a world you or I
would like to participate in.

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The Rohingya are asking for support,

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and now is the time to give it to them.

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International aid organisations,
the United Nations

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all have to step up during this time.

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Diverting money to other emerging crises

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is a very risky game.

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But inevitably, it's a diplomatic efforts here

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that will ease the restrictions
placed in the Rohingya

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and allow them to move freely.

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How long should these people wait?

Situation update: Rohingya, six years since the exodus - EN

Situation update: Rohingya, six years since the exodus - EN