Cox's Bazar

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In the autumn of 2017, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh following violent military attacks in Rakhine State. The Rohingya, a Muslim minority in Myanmar, had for decades faced discrimination, statelessness, and repeated persecution, but the events of 2017 became the largest and fastest mass displacement in the region in recent history. The actions of the Myanmar military have since been described by the United Nations and international human rights organizations as ethnic cleansing. Within a few months, around 700,000 people crossed the border into Bangladesh, where vast refugee camps emerged around Cox’s Bazar — today one of the largest refugee settlements in the world.

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