Aid cuts could force food-ration reductions at world's largest Rohingya refugee camp, speaker warns

A speaker recorded in the meeting transcript warned that cuts to humanitarian aid would force reductions to food rations for roughly 1 million Rohingya living in what the speaker called the world’s largest refugee camp, and appealed to the international community for emergency funds.

The speaker said, “This is the biggest refugee camp in the world. 1,000,000 Rohingyas live here in dramatic circumstances. And when we wanted to improve their conditions here, cuts were announced in, humanitarian aid that will force us to reduce the food ration for this population. This would be a tragedy because there are already many cases of malnutrition. People would suffer.”

The speaker added, “People would die. My appeal to the international community, please give us the emergency funds that are necessary to avoid this tragedy.”

The transcript does not specify the meeting venue, the speaker’s name or affiliation, the source of the announced aid cuts, or any requested dollar amount. It likewise does not identify which agencies or donors would be asked to provide emergency funds. The speaker characterized the camp as the largest in the world and estimated the population at about 1,000,000 people; the transcript describes existing malnutrition cases but does not quantify them.

No formal motions, votes, or agency responses appear in the provided transcript excerpt. The remarks in the transcript are an appeal and do not record any formal decision or commitment by a government or aid agency.

Further details — including which donor or multilateral agencies are reducing aid, the specific programs affected, and any proposed timeline for ration reductions — were not specified in the excerpt.