Cox’s Bazar, August 25, 2025 – On the eighth anniversary of the Rohingya exodus, the United Nations declared that Myanmar bears full responsibility for creating conditions to enable the voluntary, safe, and dignified return of Rohingya refugees to their homes in Rakhine State. The statement was echoed by 11 Western countries, emphasizing that a lasting solution depends on peace and stability in Myanmar.
Since August 25, 2017, when Myanmar’s military launched a genocidal campaign involving mass killings, arson, rape, torture, and ethnic cleansing, approximately 750,000 Rohingyas fled to Bangladesh, joining others displaced by earlier violence. Since late 2023, an additional 200,000 have crossed the border, bringing the Rohingya population in Cox’s Bazar to over one million.
Raouf Mazou, UN Assistant Secretary-General and UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Operations, speaking from Cox’s Bazar, stated that humanitarian aid alone cannot resolve the crisis. He stressed that Myanmar must create conditions for safe and dignified repatriation and urged dialogue with all parties to protect human rights and civilians. “A situation involving over one million displaced persons cannot be left to morph into a regional crisis,” Mazou warned.
A joint statement from the embassies and high commissions of Canada, Australia, the UK, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Italy, and Finland, issued in Dhaka, highlighted that Rohingyas wish to return home but cannot due to ongoing instability in Myanmar. The envoys condemned the Myanmar military and other armed groups for escalating violence and human rights abuses, calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities and unrestricted humanitarian access. They pledged continued support for Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi host communities and vowed to maintain pressure on Myanmar at the upcoming High-Level Conference on the Rohingya crisis in September 2025.
Marzuki Darusman of the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC-M) criticized the Myanmar military’s impunity, urging global powers to hold them accountable for the Rohingya genocide.
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