Myanmar has remained a rogue regime in so far as the treatment of refugees are concerned. Latest figures showed that thousands of its refugees are holed up in the border, where some 200,000 people have set up temporary shelters in a muddy area inside Bangladesh. The Bangladesh government doesn’t want to accept them either because it already having a serious problem on how to relocate its own people displaced by poverty, especially during floods.
These stateless people have been added to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ llist of people who need to cared for. Myanmar is not the only country that continues to ignore its responsibility because the military junta believes that these refugees do not deserve citizenship.
Although, the UNHCR has reported that the level of refugees has gone down in 25 years. However, there’s more challenges facing the UNHCR these days, owing to the new dilemma in Kenya where tribal killings had made serious tolls on the civilian population out there.
The UNHCR said that there is a total of 9.2 million refugees worldwide, the highest critical point in the globalized world. "The challenges include the plights of tens of millions of internally displaced people; widespread confusion over migrants and refugees; tightened asylum policies and growing intolerance."
However, UNHCR commissioner Antonio Guterres said that the state conflict is less prevalent today than internal strife and civil war, resulting in fewer refugees crossing international borders but more displaced within their own countries.
Around the world, there is 25 million internally displaced refugees who do not fall under the 1951 Refugee Convention and they in urgent need of help, Guterres said in a report.