'We are always missing you' - Torn apart by violence, Rohingya families connect through letters


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  • Friday, 13 Jul 2018

A volunteer of Bangladesh Red Crescent Society Bangladesh walks in the rain to call for the Rohingya refugees who have missing relatives in Myanmar or other countries, in Kutupalong camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh July 4, 2018. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh/YANGON (Reuters) - Inside a bamboo shelter on Bangladesh's eastern coast, 58-year-old Sait Banu held a dog-eared note from her husband. "If you find a good match for my daughter Una Jamin, you can arrange her wedding," he urged her in the letter.

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