Dhaka, Oct. 18 -- The green rice plains are welcoming after the dusty city of Cox's Bazar. The road to the camps offers a convenient journey; the same route used as the marine drive and Himchhari Road. The traffic is tolerable, even with trucks of relief and supplies going into the camps, vehicles are moving, and no long queues form even in the two-lane road. The integration of Rohingya people is becoming more gradual; locals remark how the refugees are now discarding Burmese clothes. Girls are reportedly marrying into families of the locals as well. When asked, the locals say Rohingya women are beautiful, and local men take them as their second wives.

We pass through villages and Upazilas, which conveniently has a north end, only a few ...