This
image and all images included in this article are by Zoriah. (Zoriah.net)
Palestine
Chronicle:
April
1, 2013
By
Zoriah – Zoriah.net
Rohingya
refugee camps in Bangladesh are sad place to be in. People are stuck in
impossible situations, having fled their homes and their lives only to end up
in one of the worlds most impoverished and over populated countries. They
live in camps where they are not allowed to work and have few options, few
resources and little hope.
Getting access to photograph the Rohingya refugee camps in
is nearly impossible. The government is not interested in the Rohingya’s
stories being told and does not give access to journalists.
As a photojournalist I have seen a lot of things others
would never even want to imagine. Oddly enough what really gets to me,
what gives me nightmares more than anything else, are situations in which
people are trapped and have no options. I had nightmares for years after
my first trip to Gaza, thinking about what it would be like to live my life in
a place I could never leave with few options and few choices that were truly
mine to make.
This is the feeling you get in the Rohingya refugee
camps. They are not places you would want to be in and they are not
places that anyone else should have to be in either. There are tens of
thousands of people stuck in limbo, unable to move forwards and unable to go
back. They are dying of disease, malnutrition, old age, child birth
and I would have to imagine some die from plain hopelessness. They are
trapped…hoping that at some point the world begins to pay attention to them.
Here is a brief look at some of those I saw struggling in
the camps in Bangladesh. (See more of Zoriah’s work here)
For
information about the struggle and the plight of the Rohinya people, read Ramzy
Baroud’s articles:
