Originally from Massachusetts, international development consultant Elizabeth Shick was living with her family in Yangon, Myanmar from 2013-2019 and got to witness not just Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy win the 2015 elections by a landslide, but the military crackdown on Rakhine state that led to the Rohingya exodus into Bangladesh in 2017.
With the receding water level in the Gorai river, erosion has taken a serious turn at five villages under Jangal union in Rajbari’s Baliakandi upazila, devouring fresh areas including vast arable land in the last couple of days.