Kutupalong refugee camp is the largest such camp on the planet.
It's situated in Cox's Bazar district in southern
Bangladesh. There are over 600,000
mainly Muslim Rohingya refugees living there, after having fled
persecution in their homeland of Myanmar.
The Rohingyas come from that nation's north-western state of
Rakhine. The situation for them there has become increasingly
unbearable over the last decade. And a military crackdown in August
2017 drove around
740,000 Rohingyas across the border into neighbouring
Bangladesh.
On entry, the striking thing about Kutupalong is that it
resembles a small city, or rather, the outskirts of a much larger
one. The landscape is dotted with thousands of makeshift shelters
constructed out of bamboo and tarpaulins.
