The Daily Star
Rakib Al Hasan
Tue Dec 17, 2024
Seven years. That is how long it has been since hundreds of thousands of Rohingya children were forced to flee their homes in Myanmar, leaving behind everything they knew. In the makeshift camps of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, these children have spent nearly their entire lives in displacement, trapped in a cycle of trauma, poverty and uncertainty. Born into this crisis or carried as infants through borders of despair, they have witnessed horrors no child should ever know. And yet, their future—one full of hope, dreams and opportunity—remains hopelessly out of reach.