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Photo UNHCR Cox's Bazar By Kyaw Win The Stateless March 08, 2014   Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar : Ms. Merete Lundemo and her companies  visited Kutupalong and Nayapara refugee camps. She met with RRRC, UNHCR and CIC. She inspected some activities of NGOs and she talked with Camp's Chairman, Secretary and some refugee women. Rohingya refugee women asked her to help them for durable solution, requested her to get proper medical treatment, asked her to support more educational system in camps and requested her to stop ethnic cleansing operation in Myanmar. The Rohingya refugee requested her to enhance more security where they are live in critical situation in Bangladesh. Ms. Lundemo, Ambassador of Norwegian, also visited to the UNHCR Sub-Office of Cox's Bazar.  It is a brief visit of her, but we do not know by which motive she visited.

Dear HABIB, I’ve been keeping a low profile for the last two weeks as I’ve returned to Burma to view firsthand what many are calling ethnic cleansing. But I can’t stay silent anymore — I am watching a tragedy unfold that is threatening the lives of tens of thousands of the most persecuted people on earth — the Rohingya ethnic minority in Rakhine State. Late last week, the government of Burma forced the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate organization, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), to close the doors to their clinics across the country. We responded by blasting the government publicly here in Rangoon, calling on governments with influence on the regime to apply immediate and forceful pressure. They did and soon arrangements were being made for MSF to reopen their clinics in all areas of the country — EXCEPT in the areas where the Rohingya live — precisely where the need is the greatest. Why? MFS was found guilty of telling the truth about attacks against the Rohingya that ki