It has been six years since up to a million Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar after the army launched a brutal campaign against them. Most ended up in neighboring Bangladesh, where they live in overcrowded camps amid fading hopes of ever going back home.
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00:00 There are few worse places to bring up a family.
00:04 Living in cramped and sanitary conditions in one of the world's largest refugee camps.
00:10 But Asma does what she can to look after her four children.
00:16 I have a small kid now.
00:18 I'm worried about how I can take care of it.
00:21 I'm always gripped by such tensions.
00:26 Here we have problems with food and living.
00:29 I dream of going back to my own homeland Myanmar.
00:33 It's really very painful that I can't go back to my motherland for so long.
00:44 Around a million Rohingya Muslims live in the sprawling Cox's Bazar camp.
00:50 Most of them after fleeing a military crackdown in Myanmar in 2017, their Buddhist majority
00:55 homeland.
00:58 Every day there are reminders of the makeshift nature of their lives.
01:03 With hopes of one day returning to Myanmar, fading as the years of exile grow.
01:09 We are living here in congested rooms.
01:14 Currently there are 30 members of my family with children and grandchildren.
01:20 It is very difficult to live with them in these small shanties.
01:24 There's no water and when there's a storm and it rains, I'm afraid that the houses will
01:30 collapse.
01:31 The Myanmar authorities have arranged camps for us there, but we don't want to settle
01:36 in our motherland in camps.
01:38 Give us our rights, settle us at our original places and give back our cows and goats.
01:46 Rights groups and the UN have criticized recent attempts by the Bangladeshi and Myanmar authorities
01:52 to repatriate a small number of people.
01:56 And frustration at the lack of progress is growing.
01:59 They are being prevented from going home.
02:04 They cannot go back to the country where they were born and no one has incentivized them
02:10 or implemented measures to allow the Rohingya to return to their own country.
02:18 The future for them is dark.
02:21 In this situation, they are getting involved in various activities that are harmful to
02:27 our society and to our state.
02:32 The only solution to this crisis is peaceful and dignified repatriation.
02:39 Until then, the international community should help Bangladesh to ensure a dignified life
02:47 here in Bangladesh.
02:53 But there is no visible sign that life is about to change here.
02:57 And no realistic prospect either that these Rohingya refugees will be leaving any time
03:03 soon.
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