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In Bangladesh the plight of Rohingya refugees living in the world’s largest camp for displaced people remains the focus of great concern.

Nearly a million people are living there in desperate conditions. Bangladesh is warning that it can no longer cope with the scale of the problem and is appealing to the international community for more help.

The Rohingya muslims are an ethnic minority group from neighbouring Myanmar which is predominantly Buddhist.

In 2017 hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people fled military operations by Myanmar’s army in which many people were killed.

At the time we reported on one family who had become refugees overnight. Anwar Sadiq was just hours old when a BBC first met him in a refugee camp. Five years on the life of the little boy remains fragile, one of half a million children growing up amid hunger and disease.

Huw Edwards presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Rajini Vaidyanathan in Bangladesh.

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