Dhaka, Aug. 29 -- The plight of the Rohingya, the minority Muslim community of Myanmar who have been historically persecuted in their home country, has been largely forgotten again, despite the last large-scale exodus occurring just eight years ago in 2017, when nearly a million of them were forced to seek refuge in neighbouring Bangladesh. They fled a Myanmar military crackdown that killed thousands and has been described as "the textbook example of ethnic cleansing."

In the years since, another 150,000 crossed the border as life in Myanmar, which descended into civil war in 2021, continued to get more and more difficult, and the population in the refugee camps located in Cox's Bazar kept burgeoning.

The Rohingya refugee response in Ba...