Myanmar
Rohingya in Cox’s Bazar: Resilience amid shrinking aid in the world’s largest refugee camp
Deepmala Mahla, CARE’s chief humanitarian officer, recently traveled to Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh — home to the world’s largest refugee camp sheltering nearly a million Rohingya people. On the eighth anniversary of the Rohingya crisis, she shares their stories of resilience and loss, along with the urgent need for global solidarity in one of the most complex humanitarian crises of our time.
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The Rohingya refugee crisis: long after the headlines have faded
For decades, the Rohingya, an ethnic and religious minority in Myanmar, have been experiencing persecution. Almost a million refugees have fled into Bangladesh since the 1980s to seek refuge from extreme violence, numbers compounded by the military aggression in August 2017 that added an estimated 725,000 to the number of displaced people.
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Jamanida, a mother and Rohingya refugee, fled violence to seek refuge in the world’s biggest refugee camp. Now, living in an overcrowded and under-resourced camp, she’s doing her best to take precautions against contracting COVID-19.
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