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How the Rohingya Escaped

How the Rohingya Escaped. December 2017. The body of Tasmin Ara, 1, is prepared for burial in a tent in Kutupalong Expansion Site. She died last night of diarrhea after 15 days of being sick. Her family left home after the army burnt out their village a month ago, after that they had to walk and hide for 10 days in the jungle until they reached Bangladesh. Tasmin had diarrhea for 15 days, they took her to a pharmacists who referred them to a clinic they didnt know where it was. Then yesterday, they bought medicine from another pharmacist. Kalima, her mother said "Now in Bangladesh our life is saved, but medical attention we are getting is very little. We are worried for our 2 other children. Now I am pregnant, I am worried for the child I am bearing and for myself".

How the Rohingya Escaped

How the Rohingya Escaped. December 2017. Mohammed Hossain carries his 70-year old blind father as they walk after disembarking from a makeshift raft that took them across the Naf river into Bangladesh, Teknaf area. Most of this Rohingya people spent weeks stranded in a beach in Myanmar before buidling the raft, they were literally starving. With no money to pay fishermen to take them across they had no option but to build a raft. We could see they were intercepted by burmese armed forces in the middle of the river. We were later told that they were beaten, robbed, the women touched as they looked for money or jewelry and later they got their paddles taken away.

How the Rohingya Escaped

How the Rohingya Escaped. December 2017. Rohingya refugees struggle to receive aid from volunteers delivering food in a truck along the road near the refugee camps.

How the Rohingya Escaped

How the Rohingya Escaped. December 2017. A shop at the recently set refugee camp of Balukhali, Bangladesh.