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Rohingya Refugee: Metres Yards and Wire Fence

rohingya refugee: While nearly every other Rohingya refugee who crossed the border has sought protection in the immense camps a few miles deeper into Bangladesh, these people say they will go no farther, according to CTV. My ancestors' graves are there, said Abdul Naser, gesturing toward his village, less than 100 metres yards away. They arrived in a no man's land, one of the small, ill-defined areas that exist at the cloudiest edges of the borderlands, places that seem to be neither Myanmar nor Bangladesh. Sometimes, I walk close to the barbed wire fence and touch my land, and I cry in the dark. Myanmar deployed more soldiers to the border, some of whom began coming to within 10 metres yards of the refugees' homes. But a few weeks ago things changed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.