They clung on through years of conflict in Myanmar but a surge of fighting has driven tens of thousands more Rohingya to flee, escaping with little more than harrowing tales of war.
“I saw countless dead bodies,” said 50-year-old refugee Hasina, recounting her traumatic journey to neighbouring Bangladesh.
She has joined around a million members from her stateless and persecuted Muslim minority, who have already been eking out an existence in sprawling refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh since escaping violence in 2017.
Fighting has battered Myanmar’s Rakhine state since Arakan Army (AA) rebels attacked the junta’s security forces in November 2023.
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