(New York) – Barbed wire fencing trapped thousands of refugees while a massive fire spread through Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh on March 22, 2021, Human Rights Watch said today.

Bangladesh has defended the use of barbed wire fences around vast camps holding almost a million Rohingya refugees, after a major fire left at least 15 people dead and nearly 45,000 homeless.

and Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), the central government decided to erect barbed-wire fence along the 82 km stretch along India—Bangladesh border in Nadia, Murshidabad and North 24-Parganas ...