‘We rather die than go home’

Cox’s Bazar (Bangladesh): Disease, hunger and misery stalk the Rohingya living in Bangladesh’s refugee camps but despite the grinding hardship, few are willing to consider the alternative – returning home under a deal struck with Myanmar.

The arrangement signed by Myan­­mar and Bangladesh last month to start repatriating refugees within two months is viewed with deep suspicion and dread by Rohin­gya still traumatised by the violent expulsion from their homeland.