Rohingya refugee crisis worsening: Sheikh Hasina at UN | World News, The Indian Express

Rohingya refugee crisis worsening: Sheikh Hasina at UN | World News, The Indian Express

By AP |United Nations |Published: September 28, 2019 12:28:14 pm

Rohingya refugee crisis worsening: Sheikh Hasina at UN

In Bangladesh's annual address to the U.N. General Assembly, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina appealed to the international community to "understand the untenability of the situation" surrounding the refugees from Myanmar, who are fleeing persecution by the military there.

Bangladesh said this week that authorities will build barbed-wire fences around more than 30 Rohingya refugee camps near the border to stop their expansion. (AP Photo/File)

Warning that a wider regional problem is at hand, Bangladesh’s leader said Friday that the crisis involving Muslim Rohingya refugees from neighboring Myanmar is “going beyond the camps” where they are staying.