US envoy Rashad Hussain visits Rohingya camp

Rashad Hussain. Photo: UNB

A US delegation led by US Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Rashad Hussain yesterday visited the Hindu Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar's Kutupalong.

The seven-member delegation discussed the camp facilities with the Rohingyas.

Hussain, who arrived on April 17 on a four-day visit, held a meeting with the Bangladesh Hindu Bouddha Christian Oikya Parishad in the capital on Sunday.

He is scheduled to meet State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam tomorrow.

Diplomatic sources said he is in Bangladesh to understand the situation of the religious freedom and the rights of the minorities here.

According to a report by ABC News on April 16, the White House is particularly concerned about the situation unfolding with the genocide against the Rohingyas.

Bangladesh is home to some one million Rohingyas, who fled military crackdown in Myanmar's Rakhine State. The US determined the violence against them as genocide and crimes against humanity.

Hussain noted that the move will help provide more assistance to the legal case brought by the Gambia before the International Court of Justice.

"We're sending a strong signal that for anyone who engages in these types of actions, crimes against humanity [and] genocide, we will hold them accountable."

"We also are very clear that we will do everything we can to prevent these types of atrocities from occurring."