Why it is in news?

•  The Rohingya refugee crisis is worse than the exodus from Syria, Director-General of the UN’s International Organisation for Migration (IOM), says.
• The Rohingya exodus from southwest Myanmar to southeast Bangladesh is “man-made” and “needs a political solution
•  He said the international community should treat the refugee influx as “a top priority” so that the problem was resolved quickly and refugees were able to go back to their country. Rohingya exodus clearly is the one that has seen faster pace than any other. 

Grievous atrocities

• According to the Bangladesh government, between August 25 and October 11, a total of 5,36,000 Rohingya Muslims from Rakhine State in southwest Myanmar crossed over to southeast Bangladesh.
•  Many of them lost their family members who were killed and houses set on fire “by the Myanmar Army, local police and the ethnic community of Rakhine”.
• International humanitarian agencies, such as the IOM, vetted the recent refugee figure of the Bangladesh government’s Refugee, Relief and Repatriation Commission.