Richard Juilliart | Kutupalong refugee camp

Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazaar.
A Rohingya refugee woman holds her young child .
Over 650,000 Rohingya have crossed the border to Bangladesh since August last year, fleeing the violence.

Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazaar.
Newly arrived Rohingya refugees waiting for food aid at Kutupalong camp on April 16, 2018 .Over 650,000 Rohingya have crossed the border to Bangladesh since August last year, fleeing the violence.

Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazaar.
A 90-year-old Rohingya refugee talks with his granddaughter. They walked more than 7 days before crossing the border at the Kutupalong transit center .Over 650,000 Rohingya have crossed the border to Bangladesh since August last year, fleeing the violence.

Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazaar.
Rohingya refugee is seen at hospital at Kutupalong camp on January 17, 2018 .
In November 2017 there were 7 named camps in Kutupalong, now there are 20 and there are now approximately 600,000 Rohingya refugees in the Kutupalong refugee camp of Southern Bangladesh. While preparations are now being made for the Monsoon season which is fast approaching.

Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazaar.
Rohingya refugees wait for food distribution at the Kutupalong transit center . Over 650,000 Rohingya have crossed the border to Bangladesh since August last year, fleeing the violence.

Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazaar.
Newly arrived Rohingya refugees waiting for food aid at Kutupalong camp on April 16, 2018 .
Over 650,000 Rohingya have crossed the border to Bangladesh since August last year, fleeing the violence.

Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazaar.
Rohingya child poses in front UNHCR tent.
Over 650,000 Rohingya have crossed the border to Bangladesh since August last year, fleeing the violence.

A wounded Rohingya show burn injury since Myanmar Monks torched his house. More than half a million Rohingya refugees have flooded into Bangladesh to flee an offensive by Myanmar’s military that the United Nations has called ‘a textbook example of ethnic cleansing’. The refugee population is expected to swell further, with thousands more Rohingya Muslims said to be making the perilous journey on foot toward the border, or paying smugglers to take them across by water in wooden boats. Hundreds are known to have died trying to escape, and survivors arrive with horrifying accounts of villages burned, women raped, and scores killed in the ‘clearance operations’ by Myanmar’s army and Buddhist mobs that were sparked by militant attacks on security posts in Rakhine state on August 25, 2017. What the Rohingya refugees flee to is a different kind of suffering in sprawling makeshift camps rife with fears of malnutrition, cholera, and other diseases. Aid organizations are struggling to keep pace with the scale of need and the staggering number of them – an estimated 60 percent – who are children arriving alone. Bangladesh, whose acceptance of the refugees has been praised by humanitarian officials for saving lives, has urged the creation of an internationally-recognized ‘safe zone’ where refugees can return, though Rohingya Muslims have long been persecuted in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar. World leaders are still debating how to confront the country and its de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who championed democracy, but now appears unable or unwilling to stop the army’s brutal crackdown.

Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazaar.
Newly arrived Rohingya refugees waiting for food aid at Kutupalong camp on April 16.
Over 650,000 Rohingya have crossed the border to Bangladesh since August last year, fleeing the violence.

Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazaar.
Newly arrived Rohingya refugees waiting for food aid at Kutupalong camp on April 16, 2018. Over 650,000 Rohingya have crossed the border to Bangladesh since August last year, fleeing the violence.

Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazaar.
Rohingya refugee at the Kutupalong transit center. Over 650,000 Rohingya have crossed the border to Bangladesh since August last year, fleeing the violence.

Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazaar.
Rohingya refugees at the Kutupalong transit center .
Over 650,000 Rohingya have crossed the border to Bangladesh since August last year, fleeing the violence.

Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazaar.
Rohingya refugee at the Kutupalong transit center . Over 650,000 Rohingya have crossed the border to Bangladesh since August last year, fleeing the violence.

Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazaar.
Shelters in the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp. .Over 650,000 Rohingya have crossed the border to Bangladesh since August last year, fleeing the violence at Rakhine State when their villages were attacked and many worry that they will face further reprisals if they return to Myanmar. The refugee camps in Bangladesh no longer seem temporary as thousands of tents made of plastic and bamboo spread across the undulating terrain and long wooden bridges connect parts of the camps divided by water. Existing camps such as Nayapara and Kutupalong have swelled to accommodate the new arrivals since the Myanmar military began its campaign in late August while the Rohingya queue for hours to get rations due to little access to clean water, health care or food and the refugee camps turn into mud-baths whenever it rains. International aid groups and health workers have estimated at least 6,700 Rohingya had met with violent deaths and warn of potential outbreaks of cholera and other preventable diseases due to squalid conditions.

Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazaar.
A woman in a psychological center holds her child in her arms. Her husband was killed in front of her by the Burmese army
Over 650,000 Rohingya have crossed the border to Bangladesh since August last year, fleeing the violence.

Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazaar.
Newly arrived Rohingya refugees waiting for food aid at Kutupalong camp on April 16, 2018 . Over 650,000 Rohingya have crossed the border to Bangladesh since August last year, fleeing the violence.

Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazaar.
Rohingya woman cries.
Over a half a million Rohingya refugees have fled into Bangladesh since late August, the outbreak of violence in Rakhine state caused a humanitarian crisis in the region with continued challenges for aid agencies.

Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazaar.
Rohingya refugee at the Kutupalong camp. Over 650,000 Rohingya have crossed the border to Bangladesh since August last year, fleeing the violence.

Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazaar.
Rohingya refugees are seen at hospital at Kutupalong camp on January 17, 2018.
In November 2017 there were 7 named camps in Kutupalong, now there are 20 and there are now approximately 600,000 Rohingya refugees in the Kutupalong refugee camp of Southern Bangladesh. While preparations are now being made for the Monsoon season which is fast approaching.

Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazaar.
Rohingya refugee is seen at hospital at Kutupalong camp on January 17, 2018.
In November 2017 there were 7 named camps in Kutupalong, now there are 20 and there are now approximately 600,000 Rohingya refugees in the Kutupalong refugee camp of Southern Bangladesh. While preparations are now being made for the Monsoon season which is fast approaching.

Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazaar.
Rohingya refugees at the Kutupalong transit center . Over 650,000 Rohingya have crossed the border to Bangladesh since August last year, fleeing the violence.

Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazaar.
Newly arrived Rohingya refugees waiting for food aid at Kutupalong camp on April 16, 2018.
Over 650,000 Rohingya have crossed the border to Bangladesh since August last year, fleeing the violence.

Newly arrived Rohingya refugees waiting for food aid at Kutupalong camp on April 16, 2018 in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
Over 650,000 Rohingya have crossed the border to Bangladesh since August last year, fleeing the violence.

Rohingya refugee at the Kutupalong transit center . Over 650,000 Rohingya have crossed the border to Bangladesh since August last year, fleeing the violence.