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Rohingya refugees fight to remove deadly barbed wire at Bangladesh camps
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03/05/2021 - 12:07 A child plays in the middle of coils of barbed wire in Camp 2E in Cox’s Bazar on April 29, 2021. © Remove The Fence 6 min A number of Rohingya refugees were killed when they tried to escape a series of fires that ripped through refugee camps in March 2021, only to be trapped by recently installed fences. Activists are now calling for these fences to be removed. They say they are just the latest in a series of policies implemented by the Bangladeshi government aimed at making things so difficult for the refugees that they leave.
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“You can’t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you’re doing is recording it.” Art Buchwald
Throughout history, satirists have reflected on the society that surrounds them. To be a satirist is to have a moral calling: to highlight the hypocrisies of a time. Works of satirical artists like Hogarth, Honore Daumier and Francico Goya have lived in history. The Georgian era marked the golden age for caricature in England.
Through their work, artists have been illuminating and ridiculing the absurdities and follies of human beings. Using exaggeration as a tool, they have addressed pressing problems affecting their societies, including subjects that are usually taboo.