Bangladesh’s interim leader, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, said the country no longer has domestic resources to support the roughly 1.3 million Rohingya refugees sheltering in Cox’s Bazar and urged the international community to devise a “practical roadmap” for their safe return to Myanmar. Hosting the world’s largest refugee settlement has strained Bangladesh’s economy, environment and public services, Yunus told a conference marking the crisis’s eighth anniversary. The warning coincided with mass rallies inside the camps on 25 August, where tens of thousands of Rohingya commemorated their 2017 flight from Myanmar’s Rakhine State and demanded repatriation with full citizenship rights. Protesters carried banners reading “No more refugee life” as aid groups reported growing desperation amid shrinking global funding and movement restrictions. UN agencies say children account for about half a million of the refugees, and Reuters estimates another 150,000 people have crossed from Myanmar over the past year as fighting intensifies between junta forces and the ethnic Arakan Army. UNICEF and the UN refugee agency have flagged deepening shortages of food, healthcare and education after recent donor cuts. Previous repatriation attempts in 2018 and 2019 collapsed over security concerns, and Dhaka’s latest appeal highlights the diplomatic impasse. Bangladesh is seeking broader international pressure on Myanmar as well as sustained humanitarian financing to avert further deterioration in the camps while a long-term solution is negotiated.