Showing posts with label Struggle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Struggle. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Bangladesh Struggles To Cope With Pressures Of Hosting 1 Million Rohingya Refugees

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April 15, 2019
By Jason Beaubien 

It's high tide in Cox's Bazar and there's a traffic jam right on the beach at Bangladesh's most prominent seaside resort. The lone road that leads south to the sprawling new camps sheltering hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees is closed for repairs. All the traffic has been diverted onto the gray sand beach, where people are taking selfies and strolling in the shallow surf.

Motorized rickshaws get stuck in the sand on the beach in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. All traffic heading south out of town was diverted on to the beach when the main road was closed for repairs.

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Little green rickshaws jostle with passenger vans and pickup trucks to get over a sand dune and back onto the paved roadway to head in the direction of the camps. At high tide, some of the vehicles get stuck in the wet sand, blocking those behind them.