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There’s no Xbox or PlayStation for most of the kids in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh. But there are kites.
In the late afternoon, a steady wind blows over the hills of the Hakimpara refugee camp. Young boys race to a ridge at the top of the settlement to fly homemade kites.
Our correspondent @jasonbnpr is reporting on the Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. This week, Bangladesh had planned to start sending Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar. Now the deal has been postponed.
Here is a picture of the refugee camp where 650,000 refugees are living.
This is Mohamed Yonus. “If the Bangladesh soldiers force us to go we will go,” Yonus says. “But without our rights [in Myanmar] they’ll kill us over there.”
30-year-old Shafika Khatun, says she won’t go back to Myanmar unless the country grants citizenship to the Rohingya. “Without justice we will never go back,” says Khatun. “We need our rights and our citizenship in Myanmar. Now if we go back they’ll kill us.”
In the camp, there are toilets and outhouses, & the @WFP is distributing rations. But the bamboo shelters have been erected on hillsides that are basically just sand, and there are fears that when monsoon season starts the camp will turn into a mud pit.
Still, the refugees who spoke to NPR said they feel safer in Bangladesh than in Myanmar. “We want our land, we want our houses, we want our rights,” says Khatun.
Mock-elephant constructed as an aid for training Rohingya refugees in fighting off elephant ‘attacks’. The main Kutapalong-Balukali refugee (pop. 6-700,000) camp sits across a number of elephant routes and there have been several deaths caused by elephants in the past year.
A silent genocide of Myanmar (also known as Burma) Muslims is in progress. Such is the urgency shown by Burmese Govt. to annihilate its Rohingya Muslims that it has even used Gunship helicopters to fire lethal & heavy ammunition on fleeing Muslims. The international community is a mute spectator to the organized holocaust and 57 Muslim Countries, except with the honorable exception of Turkey, is watching the carnage with disbelieving eyes. UN has issued a warning to Mynamar sans any action. It has also issued an advisory to Myanmar to accord a legal status to Country’s Muslims but sans a response.
Indian Prime Minster, Narendra Modi, in his recent visit , has endorsed & supported the Burmese leadership in dealing with the unfolding humanitarian crisis. This amounts to a clear signal to the leadership to go ahead with its ethnic cleansing pogrom. In an earlier tweet, Modi had extended cooperation to ruling dispensation to deal, among other things, with counter-terrorism (read Muslim persecution) operations. People who expected a different response from Modi tend to forget that he is basically & essentially an RSS man wedded to its anti-Muslim ideology and bound by an oath to spread it nationally & internationally. And the present anti-Muslim pogrom in Myanmar has definite & explicit connections with RSS.
Traditionally Buddhism has remained a peaceful religion with around 500 million followers around the globe. But in India’s vicinity, RSS has made deep inroads to radicalize the Buddhist society in Myanmar, Sri-lanka & our own Ladakh. To achieve the objective, RSS and its tributaries use the time tested weapon of spreading falsified version of history to the point of convincing them about the injustice meted out to Buddhists during Mughal empire rule. The self-exiled Buddhist community from Tibet and living in Himachal Pradesh is also used as grist to the propaganda mill of RSS. Incidentally the…
I don’t know if anyone has posted this set on here yet, but I haven’t seen anything on my dash about it so I thought that I would post it. Muslims in Myanmar are being burnt alive and I’m not gonna post videos or photos because they’re brutal and I feel like muslims are dehumanized enough and I’m sick of seeing our dead bodies plastered everywhere. Unfortunately all I know is from what I’ve seen on instagram and twitter, so if anyone has anything to add on, feel free to. Keep Rohingya Muslims in your duaas.
(Screenshot of BBC News article from March 24, 2021 that says): An enormous fire has spread through a Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The UN’s refugee agency says 45,000 people have been displaced, at least 15 have died and 400 remain unaccounted for.
As the fire engulfed thousands of makeshift shelters, Saiful Arakani, a 25-year-old refugee, ran straight into the toxic smoke to help find survivors.
“People were turning to ashes in front of my eyes,” Saiful said.
(Below the text is an image of one or two small buildings engulfed in flames)
