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Exodus of Rohingya at Pulongkhali

On the 16th of October, thousands (estimates of 10,000 or more) of Rohingya, including many children and elderly people, crossed a small river from Myanmar and made their way through rice paddies toward the village of Palangkhali a distance of +/- 5 km in extreme heat. The Bangladesh border guards would not allow the refugees to enter the village and at the time of this captioning the X thousand Rohingya were waiting for access to dry land in rice paddies near Palangkhali wtih driving tropical rain coming at night. Palongkhali, Anjuman Para on the Bangladesh/Myanmar border. Photo by Roger LeMoyne.

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On the 16th of October, thousands (estimates of 10,000 or more) of Rohingya, including many children and elderly people, crossed a small river from Myanmar and made their way through rice paddies toward the village of Palangkhali a distance of +/- 5 km in extreme heat. The Bangladesh border guards would not allow the refugees to enter the village and at the time of this captioning the X thousand Rohingya were waiting for access to dry land in rice paddies near Palangkhali wtih driving tropical rain coming at night. Palongkhali, Anjuman Para on the Bangladesh/Myanmar border. Photo by Roger LeMoyne.