Rehousing project: Bangladesh’s Rohingya
The country’s refugee camps are packed and squalid, so the government is moving perhaps 100,000 Rohingya Muslims to a tiny island. Will life for them improve? Military tactics can be misleading; sometimes they are outright trickery. Our defence editor ...
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<p>The country’s refugee camps are packed and squalid, so the government is moving perhaps 100,000 Rohingya Muslims to <a href="https://www.economist.com/asia/2020/12/12/bangladesh-is-moving-rohingyas-to-a-remote-island?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=third-party-host&utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a tiny island</a>. Will life for them improve? Military tactics can be misleading; sometimes they are outright trickery. Our defence editor looks at the past and future of <a href="https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2020/12/19/democracies-need-to-re-learn-the-art-of-deception?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=third-party-host&utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">military deception</a>. And why Christmas dinner involves such different fare around the world.</p><p>For full access to print, digital and audio editions of <em>The Economist</em>, subscribe here <a href="http://www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer</a></p><hr /><p style="color: grey; font-size: 0.75em;"> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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