Rohingya Refugee in Bangladesh

  • Dates
    2012 - Ongoing
  • Author
  • Topics Social Issues, Contemporary Issues, Documentary

"The military killed my husband and torched our home. I fled in a jungle along with my two children. After trying three days I don't want to remember how was I cross the river border and come in this camp” Sitara Begum (21) at Taknaf camp in Bangladesh. UN said up to 30 thousand people have been dis

"The military killed my husband and torched our home. I fled in a jungle along with my two children. After trying three days I don't want to remember how was I cross the river border and come in this camp” said Sitara Begum (21) at Taknaf Rohingya refugee camp 27 November 2016 in Bangladesh. According to media reports, the UN said up to 30 thousand people have been displaced in clashes with the military in latest violence in Myanmar. Teknaf, the gateway to Cox's Bazar, a poor but densely populated coastal area, already home to more than 230 000 Rohingya refugees.

Myanmar soldiers have poured into the area along Myanmar's frontier with Bangladesh, responding to coordinated attacks on three border posts on October 9 that killed nine police officers. They have locked down the district, where the vast majority of residents are Rohingya. Bangladesh prevented hundreds more from crossing into the country after up to 30,000 Rohingya were displaced by violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. Thousands of desperate Rohingya from Myanmar's western Rakhine state have flooded over the border into Bangladesh, bringing with them horrifying claims of gang rape, torture and murder at the hands of Myanmar's security forces. Also the bloodshed is the most serious since hundreds were killed in communal clashes in the western Myanmar state of Rakhine in 2012. It seems both the countries of Naf River have refused to take these unfortunate human beings. This kind of refusal tears their hopes and needs in thousand parts. Though both the countries are trying to save their own security but what will be the solution for these unwanted people? They are passing their days in uncertainty. They might be cursing themselves to be a human being with whom everyone is behaving inhuman.

Nur Begum (22) describes how Myanmar army attack that killed her husband and two other children, forced her to flee Rakhine State for Bangladesh with tiny Jamal. After a three-week trip with little food, Begum and her increasingly sick child made it to the camp in Leda, across the Bangladeshi border; but Jamal Hossain’s journey was already at an end.

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Bangladesh-Myanmar border through which the refugees entered in Bangladesh from Myanmar to find a secure place for living 15 June 2012 at Teknaf, Bangladesh. Hundreds of Muslims faced sectarian violence in Myanmar and tried to enter Bangladesh, but many were sent back by the authorities.

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Burning village in Myanmar also Rohingya Muslims, trying to cross the Naf River into Bangladesh to escape sectarian violence in Myanmar, look on from an intercepted boat in Teknaf on June 11, 2012. Bangladesh was refused three more boatloads of Rohingya Muslims fleeing sectarian violence in Myanmar, officials said, despite growing calls for the border to be opened. Bangladeshi guards have turned back 16 boats carrying more than 660 Rohingya people, most of them women and children, since June 11 as they tried to enter from neighboring Myanmar across the river Naf.

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Rohingya Muslims, trying to cross the Naf River into Bangladesh to escape sectarian violence in Myanmar, look on from an intercepted boat in Teknaf on June 11, 2012. Bangladesh was refused three more boatloads of Rohingya Muslims fleeing sectarian violence in Myanmar, officials said, despite growing calls for the border to be opened. Bangladeshi guards have turned back 16 boats carrying more than 660 Rohingya people, most of them women and children, since June 11 as they tried to enter from neighboring Myanmar across the river Naf.

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Rohingya Muslims, trying to cross the Naf River into Bangladesh to escape sectarian violence in Myanmar, look on from an intercepted boat in Teknaf on June 11, 2012. Bangladesh refused three more boatloads of Rohingya Muslims fleeing sectarian violence in Myanmar, officials said, despite growing calls for the border to be opened. Bangladeshi guards have turned back 16 boats carrying more than 660 Rohingya people, most of them women and children, since June 11 as they tried to enter from neighboring Myanmar across the river Naf.

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Hundreds of Muslims faced sectarian violence in Myanmar and tried to enter Bangladesh, but many were sent back by the authorities.

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Rohingya Muslims fleeing sectarian violence receive food and water from Bangladeshis during their attempt to cross the Naf River into Bangladesh in Teknaf on June 11, 2012.

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3 days in River no food, no shelter people are staying in boat with rain. Rohingya Muslims, trying to cross the Naf River into Bangladesh to escape sectarian violence in Myanmar, look on from an intercepted boat in Teknaf on June 13, 2012.

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3 days in River no food, no shelter people are staying in boat with rain. Rohingya Muslims, trying to cross the Naf River into Bangladesh to escape sectarian violence in Myanmar, look on from an intercepted boat in Teknaf on June 13, 2012.

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Nurun Nahar (55) a Myanmar Rohingya refugee shows how she was tortured by Myanmar military and poses for a picture, she came November 27 in the unregistered Rohingya refugee leda camp at Teknaf 27 November 2016 in Bangladesh. According to media reports, the UN said up to 30 thousand people have been displaced and dozens of people died in clashes with the military in latest violence in Myanmar.

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Myanmar Rohingya refugee people in unregistered Rohingya refugee leda camp in Teknaf, 26 November 2016, Bangladesh. Rohingya minority saying the Myanmar military was burning villages, physically tortured and raping young girls. In Teknaf, the gateway to Cox's Bazar, a poor, densely populated coastal area already home to almost 230,000 Rohingya refugees.

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13 family member stay in one room, a Myanmar Rohingya refugee family in unregistered Rohingya refugee leda camp in Teknaf, 26 November 2016, Bangladesh. Rohingya minority saying the Myanmar military was burning villages, physically tortured and raping young girls. In Teknaf, the gateway to Cox's Bazar, a poor, densely populated coastal area already home to almost 230,000 Rohingya refugees.

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Myanmar Rohingya refugee people in unregistered Rohingya refugee leda camp in Teknaf, 26 November 2016, Bangladesh. Rohingya minority saying the Myanmar military was burning villages, physically tortured and raping young girls. In Teknaf, the gateway to Cox's Bazar, a poor, densely populated coastal area already home to almost 230,000 Rohingya refugees.

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"The military killed my husband and torched our home. I fled in a jungle along with my two children. After trying three days I don't want to remember how was I cross the river border and come in this camp” said Sitara Begum (21) at Taknaf Rohingya refugee camp 27 November 2016 in Bangladesh. According to media reports, the UN said up to 30 thousand people have been displaced in clashes with the military in latest violence in Myanmar.

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Myanmar Rohingya refugee people in unregistered Rohingya refugee leda camp in Teknaf, 26 November 2016, Bangladesh. Rohingya minority saying the Myanmar military was burning villages, physically tortured and raping young girls. In Teknaf, the gateway to Cox's Bazar, a poor, densely populated coastal area already home to almost 230,000 Rohingya refugees.

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Nur Begum looks at the dead body of her six-month-old son Jamal Hossain in leda refugee camp in Teknaf, in Bangladesh 26 November 2016. November 26 in a dark Nur begam come with her child skinny body while fleeing Myanmar where stateless people are under attack. But early morning he was died in this Myanmar Rohingya refugee camp.

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The body of 6 month old Jamal Hossain is washed before his burial in unregistered leda refugee camp in Teknaf 26 November 2016 in Bangladesh. November 26 in a dark Nur begam come with her child skinny body while fleeing Myanmar where stateless people are under attack. But early morning he was died in this Mayanmar Rohingya refugee camp.

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The body of 6 month old Jamal hossain is carried for burial in unregistered leda Rohingya refugee camp in Teknaf 26 November 2016 in Bangladesh. November 26 in a dark Nur begam come with her child skinny body while fleeing Myanmar where stateless people are under attack. But early morning he was died in this camp.

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Rohingya refugees offer prayer before burial of 6 month old Jamal Hossain in unregistered leda Rohingya refugee camp in Teknaf 26 November 2016 in Bangladesh. November 26 in a dark Nur begam come with her child skinny body while fleeing Myanmar where stateless people are under attack. But early morning he was died. In Teknaf, the gateway to Cox's Bazar, a poor, densely populated coastal area already home to almost 230,000 Rohingya refugees.

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Myanmar Rohingya refugees bury the dead body of six-month-old Jamal Hossain in leda refugee camp at Teknaf, in Bangladesh 26 November 2016. November 26 in a dark Nur begam come with her child skinny body while fleeing Myanmar where stateless people are under attack. But early morning he was died in this Myanmar Rohingya refugee camp.

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Members of Border Guard of Bangladesh stand guard by the river Naf as Muslim Rohingyas from Burma try to enter Bangladesh by boats at Teknaf, June 12, 2012. Bangladesh border guards (L) push back Rohingya Muslims as they try to cross the Naf river into Bangladesh in Teknaf on June 11, 2012. Bangladesh border guards and coastguard patrol teams pushed back eight boats carrying more than 300 Rohingya Muslims, mostly women and children, fleeing religious violence in Myanmar, a border guard said. Bangladesh has stepped up security along the border with Myanmar and in refugee camps where tens of thousands of Rohingya live.

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