Bangladesh is building concrete dormitories on a tiny island off its coast. Reporter Patrick Winn has learned that these buildings are to be living quarters for some of the 1 million Rohingya refugees who fled ethnic attacks in neighboring Myanmar. Winn tells Marco that the refugees don’t want to go and he explains why.
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