Exiled Rohingya left out again


Uncertain future: Rohingya girls attending a class at their school in the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. — AP

Myanmar’s military portrays its general election as a path to democracy and peace, but the vote offers neither to a million Rohingya exiles, robbed of citizenship rights and evicted from their homeland by force.

“How can you call this an election when the inhabitants are gone and a war is raging?” said 51-year-old Kabir Ahmed in Bang­la­­desh’s Kutupalong, the world’s largest refugee camp complex.

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