UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet arrived in Bangladesh yesterday for a four-day visit during which she is due to visit Rohingya refugee camps.
About a million Muslim minorities live in makeshift camps in Bangladesh after fleeing a bloody military crackdown in the Buddhist-majority country in 2017.
Last month, the highest judicial body of the United Nations announced in a landmark case that Burma was guilty of genocide against a minority.
The Rohingya live in overcrowded camps with no sanitary facilities and refuse to return to Burma unless their safety and rights are guaranteed, but this situation has begun to anger Bangladesh.
Bangladesh has come under fire for human rights violations under the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is scheduled to meet with Bachelet during her visit.
Dhaka stressed that “Bangladesh hopes that the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights can see first hand that the country is doing miracles to keep its development path integrating human rights.”
