The Rohingyas long for their homes in Myanmar, but cannot go back
A repugnant mass crimping of human potential
IN A BAMBOO shack in Kutupalong, the world’s biggest refugee camp, a Rohingya woman keened last week for her sister. She was killed a few kilometres away, when her makeshift village in the no-man’s land between Bangladesh and Myanmar was attacked and her hut set on fire. The woman was burnt alive.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “No going back”
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