In the end, even that could not save them from the military’s wrath, and they rich ones were also forced to flee to Bangladesh, leaving everything behind. Abdur Gafur, 42, is one of the well-off Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh in September, escaping the military atrocities in his homeland. “My brother could kept on living in Rakhine,” Gafur told the Bangla Tribune. Eventually, they were forced to flee to Bangladesh,” Gafur said. To escape the violence, he had to flee Rakhine and take refuge in a shanty inside one of the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 20, 2017 12:33 UTC