Yet men are often overlooked in this crisis, in which 646,000 people fled to Bangladesh between 25 August and early November 2017. We have to live in the dark without solar lamps. Men can’t sleep because of the situation here. “Back home, I lived in a solid house that was beautifully decorated, but I left all my property behind.
“There are a lot of difficulties with life here,” he said. Men face particular stress, says Hamid Hussein, the top community leader or head mazhi, in Hakimpara camp in Cox’s Bazar, just across the border from Myanmar. When you finally get to sleep, the nightmares come. Living under plastic and bamboo in Bangladesh, you worry about food, water, shelter, rain, dry, hot, cold, wind, the future. You lie awake thinking about the life you had in Rakhine state in Myanmar, and the violence and fear that sent you running.
