COX’S BAZAR: Disease, hunger and misery stalk the Rohingya living in Bangladesh’s refugee camps but despite the grinding hardship, few are willing to consider the alternative – returning home under a deal struck with Myanmar. “They make deals, but they won’t follow them,” said Rohingya refugee Mohammad Syed, who estimated his age at 33. Nearly 650,000 of the Muslim minority have fled across the border into Cox’s Bazar district in southeastern Bangladesh since the army campaign began. Only then we will go back,” said 25-year-old Rohingya man Aziz Khan at Kutupalong, a gigantic camp in Cox’s Bazar. It is time they go back to where they belong,” said Ehsaan Hossain, a shopkeeper at Cox’s Bazar where prices for basic goods has skyrocketed.

Source: New Strait Times December 15, 2017 07:07 UTC