Unicef Malaysia ambassador Lisa Surihani moved to tears in Cox's Bazar

Unicef Malaysia national ambassador Lisa Surihani was overcome with emotion after listening to the Rohingya refugees share accounts of how they had to flee their homes in Myanmar. Photo: S. INDRAMALAR/The Star

On her first day at the refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, actress Lisa Surihani's eyes welled up with tears.

"I couldn't control myself," she shares. "I didn't want to cry but hearing their stories ... listening to what the women and children had to go through to escape from the violence in Myanmar and make their way to Bangladesh ... it was truly unfathomable and I was overcome with a whole gamut of emotions.