Actor Priyanka Chopra sought to draw the world’s attention to the plight of Myanmar’s Rohingya refugees, as she met Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and lauded the country for its response to the massive humanitarian crisis. Chopra also visited and met some of the displaced Rohingyas of Myanmar living in the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, a town on the southeast coast of the country.
“The world should learn from Bangladesh,” a spokesperson from the prime minister’s office quoted Chopra as saying during her meeting with Hasina.
The prime minister’s additional press secretary Nazrul Islam said the Bollywood star particularly praised Hasina for shouldering the burden of over a million “forcibly displaced” ethnic minority population of Myanmar during her courtesy visit at the premier’s Gonobhaban residence.
Chopra, 35, who visited the Rohingya camps for the second time, shared her comparative experience of interacting with the children there, saying over the months they overcame the trauma of violence they witnessed at their homeland, the official said.
“Earlier, when I visited the Rohingya camps I asked the children to draw a picture … they drew pictures of arms, gunfire and mortar shell from roving helicopters.
“As I told them to do the same this time they drew pictures of sun, animals and nature,” Chopra said, terming the change as a “testimony of their inside healing. And it was possible due to your motherly shelter and security,” she told Hasina.
The prime minister’s sister, Sheikh Rehana, and family members were present during the call. Chopra, however, feared the Rohingya children still were exposed to a hazardous situation in their camps. On behalf of the UN’s children emergency relief fund, she called upon the international community to extend all out support for the Rohingyas. She told Hasina that she was concerned about the possibility of a “generation loss” of a particular ethnicity as a large number of children have no access to education and passing their days roaming around. PTI
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