Elephants and Rohingya Muslim refugees jostle for space in Bangladesh

An elephant gets rid of a fallen tree that created a highway block in Barishal, 75 miles south of Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, Friday, Nov. 16, 2007.(Photograph: Pavel Rahman, AP)

Mohammed Alam and his younger circle of relatives had been taking part in their first excellent night time’s sleep in a very long time when the elephant attacked their tent.

He and his spouse, each Rohingya Muslims, had fled their village in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state after infantrymen started burning homes. They’d trekked for 5 days to go the border and carve out house at the fringes of Bangladesh’s sprawling Kutupalong refugee camp. That night time, in October, they idea they had been protected. “We had been dozing so soundly,” Mohammed says. “I didn’t know anything else.”

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