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Nick Perry
Journalist based in New Delhi.
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The year of living desperately

Tuesday 4 September 2018

"It started with one man sobbing, then another choked up, then another. Soon, the whole hillside was shuddering in a unified, haunting cry -- hundreds of Rohingya refugees, their palms upturned to the monsoon sky in prayer, wailing for their dead and mourning a homeland they may never see again," writes Nick Perry, a journalist based in New Delhi. "The sudden outpouring of grief caught me completely off guard, and my eyes quickly stung."

"After twelve months covering the Rohingya crisis from the refugee frontline, I couldn’t help but quietly cheer along as these beleaguered people -- so hated in Myanmar, and unwanted in Bangladesh -- clawed back some dignity."

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