Abu Siddique will be counted twice in this year's refugee statistics. He'll be counted once for fleeing Myanmar across the border to Bangladesh. And a second time for moving to escape the monsoon flooding that followed.
That probably won't be the last time he gets added to the statistics. He explained his situation to the UN Refugee Agency: ‘We are moving because during the monsoon the water rises very high here. Water rises to our necks when it rains.' The Refugee Agency is helping some families in this situation move to a new camp. Others will have to fend for themselves. Once Siddique has moved, he'll be living with his family in a temporary shelter, perhaps safe from monsoon flooding but vulnerable to a cyclone strikes on Bangladesh's exposed coastline. Almost anyone would want to move on somewhere safer, and to somewhere with more prospects for work and settlement.
New figures reveal that 30 million people were forced from their homes by conflict and disasters last year. The bulk of these were associated with weather-related disasters - floods, hurricanes and droughts. As climate change begins to bite, these figures are only likely to get worse.
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