Isn't it hard to fathom surviving on just 20 cents a day? But as of April 1, over 1 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are stuck living on exactly that. After seven years in crammed camps — no citizenship, no healthcare, no education, no dignity, no work, no future — they now scrape by on six dollars a month. Just six! That's what a coffee goes for in New York. And that's what the so-called free world passes off as enough for people who've already been stripped of everything.

This latest cut announced by the World Food Program isn't just a temporary stumble; it's the slow, grain-by-grain erosion of human dignity. In 2023, rations slid from $12 to $10 to $8 before briefly ticking up to $12.50 following a global outcry. But even that barely made a dent as malnutrition spiked, leaving children sicker and mothers weaker. Now it's back down to $6 and there's no spinning that.

It's no longer humanitarian assistance. It's abandonment - and indignity — when a basic camp meal costs around 50 cents and........

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