Confined to refugee camps, Rohingyas fight to keep their collective memory from disappearing: this book is a weapon

With no priority on the international political agenda and with increasingly scarce humanitarian aid, the Rohingyas are struggling with their physical but also cultural survival. To counter the danger of extinction, a refugee walks through the fields collecting traditional stories that will later be translated and published. “This book is a means of cultural preservation, but also an act of resistance against attempts to erase our Rohingya ident…

At least 65 Rohingya refugees from Burma died last year in confrontations between rival groups for the control of the camps that host them in neighbouring Bangladesh An NGO defending the