Rohingya Refugees Driven From Myanmar Meet Hostility in Bangladesh
Some locals push for the eviction of the multitudes sheltering in their impoverished border area
Some Bangladeshis want the 700,000 people who fled Myanmar and are stranded in refugee camps in their country to leave. For now, the refugees have nowhere else to go. Video: Karan Deep Singh/WSJ
UKHIA, Bangladesh—Makeshift tent cities, overflowing with Rohingya families fleeing violence in neighboring Myanmar, crowd the muddy hills around this Bangladeshi market town.
More than 700,000 refugees have packed into camps here since last year, dwarfing the local population and triggering an increasingly angry response from Bangladeshis who say the influx is causing food shortages, pushing up prices and undercutting wages.
“We...