DHAKA: Nine years after hundreds of thousands of Rohingya were forced from their homes and across the border into Bangladesh, their return to Myanmar seems as distant as ever, but for many the hope of seeing their land again is what keeps them going.
Mohammed Aansar was working as a high school teacher in Myanmar’s Rakhine State when his family had to leave everything behind to escape a military crackdown that began on Aug. 25, 2017.
“Life in my village was comfortable and stable. I had a home, land and other property, a motorbike, cattle, and poultry,” he told Arab News.
“My home in Myanmar was a two-story house, built entirely of wood. It was a comfortable and peaceful place where I had everything I needed.”
He has not felt this kind of comfort ever since settling Cox’s Bazaar, a coastal district of southeastern Bangladesh, which currently hosts about 1.3 million Rohingya in 33 cramped refugee camps.
