As dignitaries and the public distributed offerings to 18,000 monks at a special ceremony at the Shwedagon Pagoda, the 5,000 nuns at the event risked heatstroke and went home empty-handed.
Nine years after the brutal military operations in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh mark another Eid in exile, caught between unfulfilled promises and an uncertain future.
BY Frontier
