Aid groups are hurrying to set up schools and safe zones for children in the grim camps as part of the answer. “These are children, they do not understand what has happened,” Rohingya teacher Shamsul Alam told AFP. The Myanmar authorities say the military have only targeted Rohingya militants in their crackdown in Rakhine since August 25. Some of the earlier influx of Rohingya have already spent more than 20 years in the Bangladesh camps. And that means children like Sayed Nul may have to live with their Rakhine traumas in squalid camps for decades to come.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 11, 2017 05:03 UTC