Bodies hanging from trees, homes on fire: The drawings of Rohingya children
Authored By Wion Web Desk
Published: Oct 24, 2017, 21:11 IST | Updated: Oct 24, 2017, 21:11 IST
The children say they are drawing what they saw
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I draw what I saw
Eight-year-old Shupira holds up a drawing of buring homes. 'It?s what I saw,' she says.
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600,000 Rohingya have fled
The children who've made the drawings are currently living at the Balukhali refugee camp in Bangladesh. Since August 25, some 600,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh.
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The Killing Fields (of Myanmar)
The children's drawings include bodies hanging from trees, homes set on fire, and people being killed by soldiers while a helicopter hovers in the background. The testimony of adult Rohingyas fleeing the 'ethnic cleansing' has been similar.
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Genocide
Myanmar's state of Rakhine, where the Rohingya lived, is now devoid of more than half its Rohingya population. The United Nations recently said that what is going on in Myanmar is a 'textbook case of ethnic cleansing'.
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The ground reality
Monzurali, 11, says he saw people hanging from trees and being shot.
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Blitzkrieg
The Rohingya exodus from Myanmar began after a Rohingya insurgent group attacked police pickets on August 25. Since then, the Myanmar Army and security forces have hit back with unprecedented force.
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