Rootless Life of the Rohingya

Rohima Khatun, Rohingya refugee, fled her village and arrived in Bangladesh in September 2017. The military surrounded the village and set fire to the houses. Military men went to rape her, she said, but when they saw she was seven months pregnant and carrying a four-year old child they left her. The child was terrified and started screaming: “The four-year-old was crying so they took the child from me and threw him in the fire. They also shot my husband in front of me in the yard of our house.”