(Main image: View of part of the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazaar)
SINGAPORE (June 21): Kutupalong refugee camp, Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh: It is hot and humid now in Bangladesh, more so in the coastal city of Cox’s Bazaar, which boasts the longest stretch of beach in the world. The Bangladeshis who live in this city and the one million-odd Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in the camps here are bracing themselves for the worst-case scenario of devastating cyclones and destructive floods, which Bangladesh is unfortunately prone to.
This is where the worst humanitarian crisis of this century is being played out, almost at our doorsteps, and yet, it seems a world removed from us.
