Katie Arnold

An­a­lysts say the mil­i­tary’s dead­ly crack­down on Ro­hingya Mus­lims in Rakhine state has led to a demise of press free­dom.

‘I don’t want to [re­turn], we will nev­er be safe in Myan­mar, we need to do the best we can here in Bangladesh.’

“If we go back we’ll be ei­ther tor­tured or killed… [Hear] our sto­ries of sor­row… how [would you] feel in our shoes?”

“We don’t want a re­li­gious con­flict, we just want to fol­low our re­li­gion in [a peace­ful] way.”

“I would like the world to help us get our own coun­try back or of­fer us an­oth­er coun­try that we could live in.”

Bangladeshi cit­i­zens have ral­lied to­geth­er to pro­vide much-need­ed food and shel­ter to Ro­hingya refugees.

‘I want the world to put them­selves in our shoes – we are hu­mans in the same way that you are hu­mans.’

“I feel like the out­side world is sup­port­ing us a lot and that makes me feel bet­ter. I want every­one to hear our sto­ry.”

“We want to go home and we want peace. I be­lieve the world is watch­ing our cri­sis and that they are try­ing to help us.”

“Bangladeshi peo­ple are be­ing very kind, do­nat­ing clothes and food, but I have not seen any in­ter­na­tion­al or­gan­i­sa­tion.”