“But the security situation in the camps is just completely out of control. There are kidnappings, rapes ... the Bangladesh authorities just don’t have control of what’s happening inside the camps.”
The violence from competing armed criminal gangs has left the Rohingya at the most vulnerable they have been since more than 700,000 crossed the border in 2017, according to a new report by Singapore’s International Institute for Strategic Studies………..
……………Brewster welcomes the extra Australian support on the ground but argues it is in the Albanese government’s interests to help build the capability of Bangladeshi maritime authorities and incentivise them to stop vessels departing, potentially for Australia.
Given the pushback in Indonesia, the inevitability of offshore processing and detention in Nauru, not to mention the dangers of such a perilous trip, may not be such a barrier for the Rohingya, Brewster says.
Australia may be next for Rohingya refugees ‘running out of places to go’. Chris Barrett, SMH