A Barren Land for the Rohingyas

Now when we look back to the East
We remember so much from the past
O, where are our beloved parents?
You banished us to Bangladesh
We had to leave our beloved countryBurma

THE lyrics of a Rohyingya song, depicting a homesick Rohingya's yearning for Burma-now Myanmar-are all too familiar to the ears of refugees at the Nayapara camp in Bangladesh. "Moghs (Buddhists) call us 'boat people' because we don't have citizenship," Kalaya Ahmed, said a 62-year-old ca

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