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At Rohingya refugee camps, most birthdays fall on New Year’s Day
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According to their UN refugee cards, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya in Bangladesh camps were all born on the same day, Jan 1.
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Verena Hölzl
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DHAKA - When he woke up in his bamboo shelter on New Year’s Day, hundreds of Facebook notifications were awaiting Mr Mohammed Faruque on his phone.
It was his birthday. It was his wife’s birthday, too. And that of his five brothers and sisters, his parents, and his best friend Mohammad Ullah. And most fellow residents of Camp 7. He had already posted his best wishes the night before, apologising tongue-in-cheek that he would not be able to congratulate them all.
