<p> A massive fire at a crammed camp for Rohingya Muslims in southern Bangladesh has left thousands of the refugees homeless, a fire official and the United Nations said.</p>.<p>No casualties were reported at Balukhali camp in Cox's Bazar district on Sunday, said Emdadul Haque, a fire service official.</p>.<p>The UNHCR in Bangladesh said in a tweet that Rohingya refugee volunteers responded to the fire with the agency and its partners providing support. It provided no further details.</p>.<p>More than 1 million Rohingya refugees have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar over several decades, including about 740,000 who crossed the border starting in August 2017, when the Myanmar military launched a brutal crackdown.</p>.<p>Conditions in Myanmar have worsened since a military takeover in 2021, and attempts to send back the refugees have failed.</p>.<p>Last year, the United States said the oppression of Rohingya in Myanmar amounts to genocide after US authorities confirmed accounts of mass atrocities against civilians by the military in a systematic campaign against the ethnic minority.</p>.<p>Muslim Rohingya face widespread discrimination in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, where most are denied citizenship and many other rights.</p>
<p> A massive fire at a crammed camp for Rohingya Muslims in southern Bangladesh has left thousands of the refugees homeless, a fire official and the United Nations said.</p>.<p>No casualties were reported at Balukhali camp in Cox's Bazar district on Sunday, said Emdadul Haque, a fire service official.</p>.<p>The UNHCR in Bangladesh said in a tweet that Rohingya refugee volunteers responded to the fire with the agency and its partners providing support. It provided no further details.</p>.<p>More than 1 million Rohingya refugees have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar over several decades, including about 740,000 who crossed the border starting in August 2017, when the Myanmar military launched a brutal crackdown.</p>.<p>Conditions in Myanmar have worsened since a military takeover in 2021, and attempts to send back the refugees have failed.</p>.<p>Last year, the United States said the oppression of Rohingya in Myanmar amounts to genocide after US authorities confirmed accounts of mass atrocities against civilians by the military in a systematic campaign against the ethnic minority.</p>.<p>Muslim Rohingya face widespread discrimination in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, where most are denied citizenship and many other rights.</p>