Fifth Floor
Fifth Floor
BBC World Service
The refugee children of Cox's Bazar
23 minutes Posted Sep 4, 2020 at 3:01 pm.
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It's been three years since violence in Myanmar's Rakhine State forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people to flee to Bangladesh. Since then home has been the crowded Cox’s Bazar refugee camp. BBC Bangla’s Shahnewaj Rocky has revisited the camp and met some of the children living there.

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Image: Nayeem, born in Cox's Bazar

Credit: BBC Shahnewaj Rocky