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BANGLADESH / GRANDI MYANMAR REFUGEES
STORY: BANGLADESH / GRANDI MYANMAR REFUGEES
TRT: 01:48
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ROHINGYA
DATELINE: 10 JULY 2017, COX’S BAZAAR, BANGLADESH
10 JULY 2017, COX’S BAZAAR, BANGLADESH
1. Wide shots, Kutupalong refugee camp
2. Med shot, refugees
3. Close up, child
4. Tracking, Grandi walking through camp
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“The conditions are very minimal, very basic. I would say that this is quite worrying especially for those that have been here for a long time, and for the new arrivals that come from very traumatic situations this is worse perhaps.”
6. Tracking, Grandi walking through camp
7. Wide shot, refugees standing in line
8. Close up, Arefa
9. Various shots, Arefa speaking to Grandi through translator
10. UPSOUND (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“Do you think you can go back home?”
11. UPSOUND (ROHINGYA) Arefa, Rohingya refugee:
“I will not be able to go back home alone. I will only be able to go back if UNHCR supports us to go.”
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“She needs to know where her husband is. Her husband needs to be free from prison. And she has to have a house to go back to. She has to have land in which to rebuild her house; all things that I have seen in Myanmar and all things that we are working on, on the other side.”
13. Close up, Arefa’s daughter
14. Med shot, Arefa and translator
15. Med shot, Arefa and daughter
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“We should not lose hope although the situation is tremendously challenging, but there are ways forward.”
17. Med shot, Grandi speaking to refugees
18. Wide shot, refugees walking in camp
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said he was encouraged by talks in Bangladesh and Myanmar and called for more opportunities for Myanmar refugees in Bangladesh alongside action to improve conditions back home to support their sustainable return.
Grandi wrapped up his visit to Bangladesh today (10 July) after meeting with Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) reports that more than 350,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar live the country in camps and among the host community, with some refugees having been there for 26 years.
On his first visit to the country, Grandi said the conditions in the Cox’s Bazar camp were “very minimal, very basic” He expressed concern for refugees that had been there a long time adding that find the experience could find the situation “worse” than the very traumatic situations from which they are coming.
Arefa came to Bangladesh less than a year ago. She fled violence with her three daughters; her husband was detained.
UPSOUND (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“Do you think you can go back home?”
UPSOUND (ROHINGYA) Arefa, Rohingya refugee:
“I will not be able to go back home alone. I will only be able to go back if UNHCR supports us to go.”
Of Arefa’s situation, the High Commissioner said she needs to know her husband’s whereabouts and he must be released from prison. He said Arefa would land to rebuild her house adding that such issues were being worked on in Myanmar.
Grandi said despite this situation being “tremendously challenging” there was a way forward. He said his meetings with women leaders in Myanmar and Bangladesh made him hopeful that those solutions can be pursued.
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