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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Kaamil Ahmed

‘I can ride the bus. I can walk the streets’: the joy of freedom for Rohingya resettled in the US

Rohingya  men who crossed  from Myanmar to Bangladesh wait for their turn to collect a bag of rice from aid agencies in Balukhali refugee camp
Rohingya men who crossed from Myanmar to Bangladesh wait for their turn to collect a bag of rice from aid agencies in Balukhali refugee camp. Photograph: Dar Yasin/AP

After 23 hours on his first international flight, it was only after stepping off the plane in the United States that Nurul Haque finally felt the relief of escaping the refugee camps of Bangladesh, where he was born.

Haque was among the first Rohingya refugees allowed to leave Bangladesh in more than a decade. The 62 people who have flown to the US since late last year might be few, but resettlement has given them hope of opportunity and security that was denied them in Bangladesh.

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