Displacement, disease, deluge: trouble comes in threes for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

As the narrow escape from Cyclone Amphan and the ongoing threat of COVID-19 have shown, the Rohingya refugees remain extremely vulnerable and need all the help that Canadians can extend them.

Fatema Khatun, a Rohingya refugee and a mother of eight, pictured on June 19, 2018, at the Kutupalong camp: 'I had my own home and houses were big. We farmed, ploughed our land, and grew betel leaf. These were our sources of income. We earned a good living and we were able to save some money once everything else was looked after. Now, we have no money and our country is divided. We came here through the border.' Photograph Développement et Paix-Caritas Canada

Opinion

BY DOMINIQUE GODBOUT AND MINAZ KERAWALA

June 1, 2020

MONTREAL—Brewing in the Bay of Bengal in mid-May, Cyclone Amphan became the region’s worst storm since 2007. Fearing devastation, aid agencies scrambled to draw up emergency preparedness plans to buttress the 34 Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar District. Pandemic-related pr...

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