Photo exhibition highlights plight of Rohingya in Bangladesh
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The UN refugee agency and the Liberation War Museum of Bangladesh jointly organized a photo exhibition on Monday in the capital Dhaka to highlight the plight of Rohingya refugees on the occasion of the World Refugee Day.
The exhibition titled “We are Rohingya” presented the work of 10 Rohingya refugees, who had photographed people living in the cramped camps of Cox’s Bazar, the world’s largest refugee settlement and home to above 1.2 million displaced Rohingya Muslims, most of whom fled a brutal military crackdown in Myanmar’s Rakhine State in August 2017.
On the occasion, a UNHCR statement said: “More than 50% of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are children under the age of 18 with no access to formal education and a very limited access to skill development activities or higher education.”
The photo exhibition explores themes of memory, hope, dreams, faith, beauty, craftsmanship, grief, loss, and love among the Rohingya refugees, the statement added.
The exhibition also includes 11 photographs of Bangladeshi nationals who lived as refugees during what is called by Bangladesh “the Liberation War” against Pakistan in 1971.
After being freed from around 200-year-long British colonial rule, the Indian subcontinent was divided into two independent states – the Hindu majority India and the Muslim majority Pakistan. Bangladesh was part of Pakistan till 1971, called East Pakistan.
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