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Holly Richardson: Life in a Rohingya refugee camp is anything but normal

When you look a little closer at the camps, you also realize that there aren’t many men. They were killed in Myanmar.

Amira and family in Rohingya refugee camp

The first thing that hits you are the sounds of normal, everyday life — children laughing, babies crying, mothers soothing. But life in a Rohingya refugee camp is anything but normal.

Today we met “Amira” and her family. Two months ago, they made their way to the “no man’s land” between Myanmar and Bangladesh, where they waited for two weeks before they could cross the river separating the two countries.