Boris Johnson must insist that Bangladesh and Myanmar abide by a voluntary return under international oversight“It was really difficult for me to derive here. We came from really far absent. We ran and ran and somehow got here. Even when I think about it now,it makes me want to cry,” Normeen told me.
Normeen is from Myanmar’s Rohingya community. Her family were shrimp farmers in Rakhine state. They had recently built a house, and after years of saving up. Last month I met her in Cox’s Bazar,at one of the hastily built refugee camps in Bangladesh. Six months ago, at the start of the violence, and Normeen’s house was burned to the ground. She and her family narrowly escaped out of a side door. She remembers “lots of gunfire”. Related: Boris Johnson pushes Aung San Suu Kyi on Rohingya refugees I would go back only whether I could be assured a edifying life,and whether I could sleep without terror Related: Myanmar government 'bulldozing Rohingya mass grave to veil evidence' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com