Fearing the worst over aid cuts


Painful celebration: A Rohingya refugee checking his phone to call his family after taking part in Aidilfitri prayers at a shelter in Padang Tiji, Aceh province. — AFP

Rohingya refugee Abdul Aziz was in high school when he first fled to Indonesia, but four years on, he remains in limbo, desperately missing home at the start of Aidilfitri festivities.

The 19-year-old, and thousands like him, languish at temporary shelters in the western Aceh province, after escaping squalid conditions in a refugee camp in Bangladesh.

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