The Overlooked Refugee Crisis – The Rohingya
When asked to ponder over the refugee crisis, our minds immediately reroute towards the Syrian refugee crisis or, more recently, the Ukrainian refugees owing to the unceasing media attention they garner. However, the largest refugee camp belongs to Myanmar’s Rohingya refugee crisis. Sporadically recognized as ‘forgotten’ or ‘neglected’ by political writers such as CBC’s Nick Logan and Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Jamjoom, this piece aims to shed light on the lives of 1.1 million refugees and capture the political essence through time and other dimensions.