Sunday, November 19, 2017 4:01:37 AM
China to help resolve Rohingya crisis: Bangladesh
AFP
Dhaka, Bangladesh | Sun, November 19, 2017 | 08:55 am
Rohingya refugees fill pots for drinking water from a hand pump at
Nayapara refugee campin Teknaf on October 27, 2017. (AFP/Tauseef
Mustafa)
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2017/11/19/china-to-help-resolve-rohingya-crisis-bangladesh.html
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Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees face water shortage crisis as wells run dry
By South Asia correspondent James Bennett
Updated about 7 hours ago
Photo: Abul Kalam says he has a feeling the community "are going to face an acute shortage of water". (ABC News: Som Patidar)
Related Story: Myanmar soldiers accused of mass rape of Rohingya women in new reports
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-17/rohingya:-myanmar-soldiers-accused-of-mass-rape-in-new-reports/9160498
Related Story: Why are the Rohingya stateless?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-24/why-are-the-rohingya-stateless/8978966
Related Story: Witnessing the torment, anguish inside a Rohingya refugee camp
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-30/witnessing-the-torment,-anguish-inside-a-rohingya-refugee-camp/8999870
Map: Bangladesh - http://www.google.com/maps/place/Bangladesh/@24,90,5z
The hand pump that Abul Kalam uses to fetch drinking water for his family of eight is good for about 20 minutes' supply.
But after that, Rohingya refugees in the sprawling Balukhali camp in southern Bangladesh must wait for its underground reservoir to refill.
"Our three blocks [about 300 families] … completely depend on this well," he says.
Another nearby has dried up already.
"This will stop functioning in the next 15 days, or a month," the 45-year-old says, gesturing at the now-dry pump he'd just been using.
Continued: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-19/australians-helping-rohingya-refugees-in-bangladesh/9164374
See also:
Aung San Suu Kyi: No ethnic cleansing of Myanmar Muslim minority
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=130230587
Tutu condemns Aung San Suu Kyi's silence
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=134492139
Science and Religion: Two Products of Human Imagination
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=130095181
AFP
Dhaka, Bangladesh | Sun, November 19, 2017 | 08:55 am
Rohingya refugees fill pots for drinking water from a hand pump at
Nayapara refugee campin Teknaf on October 27, 2017. (AFP/Tauseef
Mustafa)
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2017/11/19/china-to-help-resolve-rohingya-crisis-bangladesh.html
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Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees face water shortage crisis as wells run dry
By South Asia correspondent James Bennett
Updated about 7 hours ago
Photo: Abul Kalam says he has a feeling the community "are going to face an acute shortage of water". (ABC News: Som Patidar)
Related Story: Myanmar soldiers accused of mass rape of Rohingya women in new reports
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-17/rohingya:-myanmar-soldiers-accused-of-mass-rape-in-new-reports/9160498
Related Story: Why are the Rohingya stateless?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-24/why-are-the-rohingya-stateless/8978966
Related Story: Witnessing the torment, anguish inside a Rohingya refugee camp
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-30/witnessing-the-torment,-anguish-inside-a-rohingya-refugee-camp/8999870
Map: Bangladesh - http://www.google.com/maps/place/Bangladesh/@24,90,5z
The hand pump that Abul Kalam uses to fetch drinking water for his family of eight is good for about 20 minutes' supply.
But after that, Rohingya refugees in the sprawling Balukhali camp in southern Bangladesh must wait for its underground reservoir to refill.
"Our three blocks [about 300 families] … completely depend on this well," he says.
Another nearby has dried up already.
"This will stop functioning in the next 15 days, or a month," the 45-year-old says, gesturing at the now-dry pump he'd just been using.
Continued: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-19/australians-helping-rohingya-refugees-in-bangladesh/9164374
See also:
Aung San Suu Kyi: No ethnic cleansing of Myanmar Muslim minority
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=130230587
Tutu condemns Aung San Suu Kyi's silence
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=134492139
Science and Religion: Two Products of Human Imagination
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=130095181
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