“People were vehemently opposed to these policies in the past,” he told me. “But now they are starving in the camps, and they are just thinking about how to survive the next day—they don’t have a place to sleep, they don’t have a place to be, they have lost their source of income, they have no idea how they will feed themselves in the future. So it’s in that situation that the government pushes ahead with this plan. When people recover, they will find out what had been decided, but by then the damage will already be done.”
