COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh ¨C After Ajib Bahar¡¯s six-month-old son fell sick last year in Myanmar¡¯s war-torn Rakhine state, the 38-year-old Rohingya mother said she had no medicine or food to give him. The boy died in her arms.
¡°My children cried all night from hunger. I boiled grass and gave it to them just to keep them quiet,¡± Bahar said from a refugee camp in Bangladesh¡¯s Cox¡¯s Bazar, where she and her family sought safety after fleeing violence and starvation in Myanmar.
Rakhine state, a western coastal region that has suffered years of conflict and ethnic violence mostly targeting the Rohingya Muslim minority, is now facing an ¡°alarming¡± hunger crisis due to a ¡°deadly combination of conflict, blockades and funding cuts,¡± according to the United Nations¡¯ World Food Program (WFP).
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