TIL Desk Bollywood/ Bollywood actor and global Unicef Goodwill Ambassador for Child Rights, Priyanka Chopra, who is on a field visit currently to Dhaka, has urged the world to care for and support Rohingya refugees, among whom are a whole lot of children who she says are scarred for life because of their ordeal.
Priyanka on Monday visited Cox’s Bazaar, one of the largest refugee camps in the world, and shared photographs of her experience with Rohingya children on Instagram.
Almost 700,000 refugees have fled violence in neighbouring Myanmar and arrived in Cox’s Bazar since August 2017, according to the UN.“In the second half of 2017, the world saw horrific images of ethnic cleansing from the Rakhine State of Myanmar (Burma).
This violence drove nearly 700,000 Rohingya across the border into Bangladesh – 60 per cent are children! “Many months later they are still highly vulnerable, living in overcrowded camps with no idea when or where they will ever belong…even worse, when they will get their next meal,” Priyanka wrote.
