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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

Rohingya refugees face uncertain future 8 years after fleeing Myanmar: ‘Are our lives not as important?’

Muhammad Rezwan was 21 when he walked hundreds of miles to flee attacks on his home by the Myanmar army in 2017, a military campaign that UN experts have characterised as a genocide.

Eight years later, he is kept awake at night not by immediate threats to his safety, but by the thought of raising his two daughters – aged two and four – in the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh. “It is almost a decade since I fled with hundreds of people in my village for a better future. But the situation is still grim. The future of my young daughters is at stake,” Rezwan tells The Independent.

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