Rohingya children play at a UNICEF child friendly space, supported by UK aid, inside Batukhali refugee camp in Bangladesh, in November 2017. According to Save the Children, since August 2017, 700,000 Rohingya children and families have fled to Bangladesh following an alarming escalation of violence in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar. Now over 370,000 of Myanmar’s children are living in overcrowded refugee camps. Relying on food rations to survive, 40 percent of Rohingya child refugees suffer from stunting due to malnutrition.

First published in the August 06, 2019, 9:10 p.m. edition

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