Heavy rains a “huge wake-up call” to relocate vulnerable Rohingya

Heavy rains a “huge wake-up call” to relocate vulnerable Rohingya
After digging out of the rubble with their bare hands, some refugees can only rebuild on the same dangerous land
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Dene-Hern Chen

The first heavy rainfall of this year’s monsoon season has exposed new cracks in the fragile refugee camps of southern Bangladesh, which are now home to roughly 900,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar. A half-metre deluge over Cox’s Bazar earlier this month – two thirds of the area’s average precipitation for the month in only five days – wrecked homes and access roads faster than aid responders could handle.

The Rohingya in Myanmar:

The Rohingya in Myanmar: How Years of Strife Grew Into a Crisis

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Life has long been fraught for a Muslim minority in mainly Buddhist Myanmar, but the recent “ethnic cleansing” has sent Rohingya fleeing en masse.
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Myanmar soldiers have reportedly killed a large number of Rohingya Muslims

Since Friday, Myanmar soldiers have reportedly killed a large number of Rohingya Muslims under a pretext of responding to attacks against the country’s border posts.

Hundreds of Rohingya villagers fled from Rakhine province in northwestern Myanmar to Bangladish borders since the violence intensified.