Launched TUESDAY May 28, 2019. Reportage #703: Survivors of Genocide by ZUMA Press photographer, Mohammad Rakibul Hasan. https://tinyurl.com/y5qwbsle The Rohingya people are a stateless Indo-Aryan ethnic group who reside in Rakhine State, Myanmar. There were an estimated 1 million Rohingya living in Myanmar before the 2016–17 crisis. One million Rohingya Muslims escaped from Myanmar, each with their own harsh story to tell. The majority are Muslim while a minority are Buddhist. Described by the United Nations as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. The story is repeated over and over in the narratives from the Rohingya women in the camp: the army burned the homes and killed their family members. The soldiers raped them as they fled from their homes in the region of Rakhine and across the border to Bangladesh. In late 2018, a United Nations-mandated fact finding mission found that the military abuses committed in Kachin, Rakhine, and Shan states since 2011 “undoubtedly amount to the gravest crimes under international law,” and called for senior military officials to face investigation and prosecution for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. The genocide is not over and the trauma it has caused will mark the survivors for the rest of their lives.
© Story of the Week zReportage.com : Launched TUESDAY May 28, 2019. Reportage #703: Survivors of Genocide by ZUMA Press photographer, Mohammad Rakibul Hasan. https://tinyurl.com/y5qwbsle The Rohingya people are a stateless Indo-Aryan ethnic group who reside in Rakhine State, Myanmar. There were an estimated 1 million Rohingya living in Myanmar before the 2016–17 crisis. One million Rohingya Muslims escaped from Myanmar, each with their own harsh story to tell. The majority are Muslim while a minority are Buddhist. Described by the United Nations as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. The story is repeated over and over in the narratives from the Rohingya women in the camp: the army burned the homes and killed their family members. The soldiers raped them as they fled from their homes in the region of Rakhine and across the border to Bangladesh. In late 2018, a United Nations-mandated fact finding mission found that the military abuses committed in Kachin, Rakhine, and Shan states since 2011 “undoubtedly amount to the gravest crimes under international law,” and called for senior military officials to face investigation and prosecution for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. The genocide is not over and the trauma it has caused will mark the survivors for the rest of their lives.
Nov 8, 2018 - Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh - SHAFIQA BEGUM (21) was married for three months before Myanmar Army soldiers killed her husband and fifteen close relatives. The army raped and tortured her and left her in her house and then set it on fire. She was rescued by neighbors.
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Nov 7, 2018 - Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh - FARIDA KHATUN (50) was raped by the Myanmar Army during ethnic cleansing. They burned her husband in her house. They killed her twelve years old son and twenty two year old daughter.
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Nov 7, 2018 - Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh - ARFA BEGUM (11), a Rohingya refugee girl who was shot in the leg by the Burmese army while fleeing Myanmar.
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November 8, 2018 - Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh - DILDAR BEGUM (30) was raped by Myanmar Army soldiers who killed her husband, her two young sons and mother-in-law in Myanmar. In August of 2017 the Myanmar Army launched renewed 'clearance operations' ostensibly aimed at Rohingya militants but which targeted all members of the community, including women and children. Widespread attacks against the Muslim minority group forced more than 706,000 people to flee into neighboring Bangladesh.
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Nov 7, 2018 - Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh - ABDUL KARIM (19), A Rohingya refugee lost his left leg after he was shot by Myanmar Army when he was fleeing as his father Nabi Hossain and brother-in-law were murdered by soldiers. He managed to enter Bangladesh despite the injury.
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November 10, 2018 - Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh - SANWARA BEGUM was raped by Myanmar Army soldiers during ethnic cleansing when she was 17 years old. She crossed the border with her family and now lives at the Rohingya Kutupalang Rohingya Refugee Camp. Sanwara recently married a Rohingya man who has accepted her and the tragedy that happened to her.
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November 10, 2018 - Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh - BADU BEGUM (25) who lives in the Kutupalang Rohingya Refugee Camp was raped by Myanmar Army soldiers during ethnic cleansing in 2017. Badu has lost her husband who was shot and killed by army soldiers.
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November 7, 2018 - Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh - MOMTAJ BEGUM (30) was raped by the Myanmar Army during the ethnic cleansing in 2017, Myanmar. The army killed her husband and three sons.
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November 10, 2018 - Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh - RABIJA KHATUN (22) was raped by Myanmar Army soldiers in 2017 and now lives in the Thyankhali Rohingya Refugee Camp . She has lost four family members, her husband, two young children, and brother-in-law were all murdered by the Myanmar Army.
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