MD Saidul Hoque
‘Holding onto Hope’
Putting wire fences may cause psychological and mentally disorders, and it is more akin to concentration camps than keeping camps secured. fencing the camps will undo all the humanity Bangladesh has shown and turn the camps into concentration camps with barbed-wires, watchtowers and CCTV. These camp inhabitants were in the open-air prison of Myanmar for decades. Now we are again facing the same denial of absolutely basic freedoms in Bangladesh.
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MD Saidul Hoque
‘Raging Inferno’
Fires have been a common occurrence in the Rohingya refugee camps. On 22 March 21, a massive fire incident happened in Balukhali Rohingya refugee camp where about 550 shelter were burnt and 3,500 peoples become homeless. In this situations peoples try to save their goods but this man is trying to save his mother from the fire.
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Md. Saidul Hoque
HOMELAND: Myanmar
DENTION: Bangladesh
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TIME IN DETENTION:
REASON FOR SEEKING REFUGE: Escape persecution / torture / death in Myanmar
DESTINATION: Any safe & free country
Story
When I left my country that time I was hopeless then I thought how can I rise voices to the world from Rohingya community and I researched in social media and there was lots of options like poetry, photography, videography and many others and I choose photography because photography is more powerful.
The only education accessible to children in the world’s largest refugee settlement is provided by a network of unsupported community based Rohingya schools. There is a saying circulating in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh: To destroy a people, it is not necessary to kill them, only to deny them an education. I am a refugee teaching in the camps in Cox’s Bazar, and I know this only too well. The only education being provided in these camps comes from an informal network of Rohingya volunteer teachers. We desperately need international support. Four years ago, Bangladesh opened its borders and saved hundreds of thousands of Rohingya families under attack by Myanmar’s military. Since seizing power in a February 1 coup, that military has continued to commit crimes against humanity and made safe refugee return impossible. Bangladesh has not forced any Rohingya back to Myanmar, but it wants us to go back. To that end, Bangladesh has made it illegal for Rohingya children to attend public or private schools outside the refugee camps, which are surrounded by barbed wire. Some children managed to enroll, but were expelled.
According to Amnesty International, more than 750,000 Rohingya refugees, mostly women and children, have fled Myanmar and crossed into Bangladesh after Myanmar forces launched a crackdown on the minority Muslim community in August 2017, pushing the number of persecuted people in Bangladesh above 1.2 million.