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U.S. wants India on board to ease Rohingya crisis
What has happened?
Amid growing worries about the coming monsoon that could flood a third of the main Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazaar in Bangladesh, Washington has offered to partner with New Delhi on joint efforts to assist Bangladesh
Background
Recent visit to the region by Deputy Assistant to U.S. President Donald Trump and the Director for South and Central Asia, Lisa Curtis, as well as Director for India and the Indian Ocean BasantSanghera
The Problem
- Upcoming Monsson/cycloneseason in Bangladesh
From April to June could force refugees to pack in closer on higher ground, thereby spreading the risk of diseases
- World’s single largest refugee camp now
Kutapalong-Balukhali camp in Bangladesh, is now the world’s single largest
Refugee camp, housing about 600,000 people.
Appeal for Aid by the ISCG (UN’s Inter-sector Coordination Group)
The UN’s Inter-sector Coordination Group (ISCG) that runs all the camps in Bangladesh, has recently launched an appeal for $950 million for food and shelter for the next year
Countering China
The U.S. proposal to India may be seen as an attempt to counter China that had last year brokered a repatriation agreement (yet to be implemented) signed by Bangladesh and Myanmar
