Bangladesh: Rohingya Refugees Who Fled Massacres in Burma Face Another Lethal Force: The Monsoon

May 4, 2018 | Jason Patinkin, Washington Post
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In Bangladesh, the world’s largest refugee camp is literally falling apart. With the annual cyclone and monsoon seasons approaching this month and next, hundreds of thousands of refugees are steeling themselves for the camp’s further collapse. Since August, some 700,000 Rohingya Muslims from ­Buddhist-majority Burma have poured onto a thin spit of land in southeastern Bangladesh, fleeing a brutal crackdown by Burma’s army that the United Nations has called ethnic cleansing.