By Joseph Allchin

Persecuted in their Burma homeland, many of the Rohingya people have fled across the border to Bangladesh. But even there, they can’t make a living.

Menara Begum hasn’t seen her husband since he was hauled off to prison by Burma's border guard force some 18 years ago. She now lives in the unofficial Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, where her children play alongside those of her brother, who has been jailed in Bangladesh.

Both men were taken into custody because they were outsiders, ‘nowhere people,’ as a disgruntled aid worker says of the Rohingya. They are, he says, caught up in a ‘protracted emergency…that has existed for 20 years.’

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