It’s been a while since we’ve talked about the Rohingya Muslim minority stranded in refugee camps in Bangladesh. You might remember they fled from Myanmar after a military crackdown against the in 2017 – a dark chapter the United Nations described as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing”. More than a million people are living over 3,000 hectares of the Cox’s Bazar region in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions – human rights groups say it’s the world’s largest refugee camp. They are also vulnerable to fires as demonstrated by a big blaze on Sunday that engulfed 2,000 bamboo-and-tarpaulin shelters and 35 mosques, and reports say 12,000 people have been left homeless. The cause isn’t known, and there are no casualties reported so far. There is no prospect of the Rohingya returning home anytime soon – conditions in Myanmar have only worsened since the military coup in 2021.