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Posted: 2018-02-10T10:47:22Z | Updated: 2018-02-10T10:47:22Z

COXS BAZAR, BANGLADESH - Modina Khatun stared blankly at the hilltop holding the grave of her 5-year-old daughter Romaida, the latest refugee to be buried in a makeshift cemetery overlooking a patchwork of thousands of plastic emergency tents.

Khatuns daughter died on a hot morning last November in Kutupalong, a vast refugee camp in southeastern Bangladesh. Khatun had arrived in the camp just a month before. Like hundreds of thousands of fellow Rohingya Muslims from Myanmars Rakhine state, a brutal military offensive against Rohingya militants forced her family out of their home.

The trek to the border and across the Naf River had been hard, and the family was ill-prepared. Even at home in Rakhine, Romaidas health had suffered under the strict government restrictions limiting Rohingyas access to food and medicine. Once in the camp, the little girl quickly succumbed to malnutrition amid the squalid living conditions.

Her tummy hurt. She had a fever ... I put her in bed, but the next morning she wasnt moving, Khatun recalled about the day of her daughters death. No longer wearing thanaka the distinctive plant-based face powder that so many people in Myanmar don every day but is difficult to find in the refugee camp Her face appeared devoid of emotions as she spoke.