Shaokat Ara, a two months old kid, has been living in the Balukhali makeshift Rohingya Camp-1, Ukhia, Cox's Bazar since she was born.   To her, despite her innocent incapability to sensing, the planet is a green one- courtesy to Ukhia's picturesque natural blessing, perhaps full of green hopes. But she was born rather hopelessly when her mother, Rehana narrowly escaped a locally named "Launcha"- a close friend of missile, fired by Myanmar military to set her home ablaze. She was offered no option but to run and flee. She crossed a narrow strait of Naf from qunchipong in Myanmar to Ulubunia, Palingkhali, Ukhia leaving out her torturous past at Balibazar, a village in Maungdaw district, Myanmar where they have been living for hundreds of years.

The short walk toward Ulubunia at Bangladesh-Myanmar border came to a halt as Rehana felt a surging pain burning her womb. It was time for the delivery of her child which she has been carrying for 10 months. It was time to release the pain and embrace the newborn. Showkat Ara was born on the way to her mother's walk to freedom from persecution and pain. She was indeed persecuted being a member of the most persecuted race on earth.

Rehana had companies, thousands of them, swarming Myanmar-Bangladesh border left with no choices but to run for their lives often with a solar panel or an elderly member of the family hanging on the shoulder and a battery bag in hands. They saw two completely opposite faces of the same species shown by two different nations. On the one hand, Myanmar government was showing a state perversion with guaranteed madness, savageries through launching heavy offensives in reply to stones thrown at them by a community who has been denied citizenship on ludicrous ground, yet rationalizing  their programmed genocide and crimes against humanity with ambiguous rationales made up of manipulations and falsification of facts; and on the other another human run govt., Bangladesh,  was setting up extraordinary examples of humanity and compassion. Rohingyas were forced to lead nomadic life getting forcefully displaced from their agrarian social lifestyle. Lately,  Myanmar militarized govt. came up with a ridiculous version of myth by saying that Rohingyas, in fact!, are migrated Bangldeshi Muslim agrarian wagers who travelled to their land some generations ago and thus never conformed to their fictitious citizenship principles. Armatya Sen, the Nobel Prize winning Indian economist, slapped this line of defense with a fiery retort by saying "Rohingyas didn't come to Myanmar; Myanmar did come to the Rohingyas".

Bangladesh was born with a fundamental pledge to justice, equity and compassion. In the face of this humanitarian crisis, one of the biggest in world history, our government along with our ever so generous people embraced the traumatized Rohingyas with smiles. Immediately after the fresh influx beginning in August 29, the Cox’s Bazar district administration in collaboration with RRRC (Refugee, Relief and Repatriation Commission, Bangladesh) set up temporary makeshift camps and developed a system not only to distribute reliefs coming from all over the world but also to create a facilitatory work environment for the UN bodies and hundreds of NGOs. Other agencies like police and the Army led by the district administration accomplished an insurmountable task to facilitate the safe and secured distribution of a huge amount of reliefs of diverse categories. They helped to build temporary plastic sheds for the forcefully migrated Rohingyas, and provided a sound work environment for the UN bodies like IOM, WFP, UNHCR, and UNICEF who will ultimately take over those safe homes and provide basics of life to the Rohingyas. Hundreds of national and international NGOs are doing a commendable job to ensure minimum sanitation and health standards in the makeshift camps. Everyone except Myanmar is trying to build a fate for this fateless, a home for this homeless and give a hope to this utterly hopeless human race.

But we need to reconsider few things under the hard realities and few fresh developments in Rohingya camps. Few days back, at Balukhali makeshift camp-1 three Bangladeshi citizens from Chittagong were brutally beaten by the Rohingyas who were trying to distribute cashes as relief on which the govt. imposed a ban on. They were recovered half dead and Rohingyas claimed that they were trying to steal their kids. But later on this was found not to be the case. The money from the Bangladeshis was snatched away by the Rohingyas and to cover it they simply manufactured a ground. Few days back a policeman was hit in the head by a Rohingya couple at Teknaf. These developments, thought not enough reported incidents to be seriously concerned, indicate to a law and order concern for the hosts. Some believe, years of exposure to extortion, exploitation and violence may have rendered Rohingyas to be cunning, tricky and violent as a race. We obviously don't want to subscribe to this racial character of Rohingya. But the potential for a "Rohingarchy" in the lives of the locals is not unlikely at all. Besides, the headache is not only about the law and order. Bangladesh has been advancing gloriously for the past few years and this half a million and counting heads can seriously affect the thriving growth of our nation, at least in part.

The number itself is a threatening statistic. Preventing mixing with locals would be a near impossible job for the security forces and it will result in fatal consequences for the locals. It means now the same amount of resources will be shared by more people. Jobs, markets and trades will be shared by more people and, therefore, the threat for an emerging "Rohingonomics" is hanging in the air. Though WFP and UNHCR will take the responsibilities of this added population, there is no guarantee that they will not cut loose from the camps. Thus the locals might experience a sinking loss of identity.  Their fate might be at risk in the near future.

When will they go back? Will they be given their legitimate right of citizenry? What is exactly a solution to this crisis? Many of these questions need immediate answers which we don't see coming shortly. At the moment, international authorities are busy to meet immediacies based upon the sheer generosity shown by our prime minister. Interestingly, their efforts to force Myanmar govt. to do the right thing are disproportionate compared to their efforts to accommodate Rohingyas in Bangladesh. We obviously want an acceptable and compassionate solution to this crisis and we obviously want to build future for Rohingyas but not at the cost of risking  others fate.

The writer is an Assistant Commissioner and Executive Magistrate working in DC office, Feni,  Bangladesh and a member of Bangladesh

Civil Service.