Rohingya Refugees Stock Images For Students: The community claims it is descended from people in precolonial Arakan and colonial Arakan; historically, the region was an independent kingdom between Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Rohingya legislators were elected to the Parliaments of Myanmar until persecution increased in the late-20th century.
The Rohingya are an ethnic group, the majority of whom are Muslim, who have lived for centuries in the majority Buddhist Myanmar. Currently, there are about 1.1 million Rohingya in the Southeast Asian country. The Rohingya speak Rohingya or Ruaingga, a dialect that is distinct to others spoken throughout Myanmar.
Bangladesh is home to 32,000 registered Rohingya refugees who are sheltering in two camps in the southeastern district of Cox’s Bazaar. Agence France-Presse reported in May 2015 that another 300,000 unregistered Rohingya refugees were living in Bangladesh, most of them near the two official camps.
There are an estimated 3.5 million Rohingya dispersed worldwide. Before August 2017, the majority of the estimated one million Rohingya in Myanmar resided in Rakhine State, where they accounted for nearly a third of the population.
A boy from the Rohingya community arrives to pray at a mosque in a camp in New Delhi, October 4, 2018
A girl from the Rohingya community stands outside a shop in a camp in New Delhi, October 4, 2018
A girl from the Rohingya community stands outside her family’s shack in a camp in New Delhi, India October 4, 2018.
A man from the Rohingya community fills out an identification form, provided by local police, inside his shop at a camp in New Delhi.
A man from the Rohingya community fills out an identification form, provided by local police, as his wife and daughter sit next to him inside their shack at a camp in New Delhi, India October 4, 2018. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
Children from the Rohingya community play outside their shacks in a camp in New Delhi, October 4, 2018
Women from the Rohingya community stand along a road as they wait for public transport outside a camp in New Delhi, October 4, 2018
“By targeting our madrassas and mosques, they tried erase our culture and religion from Rakhine,” said Rohingya activist Rafique bin Habib, referring to Myanmar’s westernmost state where the minority dwelt. “But many of our top madrassa teachers survived and fled to Bangladesh, where they have set up schools in the camps so that our new generation can be deeply rooted in our culture and religion.”
Inside a stifling bamboo shanty, eight-year-old Saleema Khanam throws a bright yellow shawl over her head and steps out into an enormous refugee camp in Bangladesh, clutching her treasured Quran. She is the only girl in her local madrassa or Islamic seminary, catering to Rohingya children driven from Buddhist-majority Myanmar by a wave of genocidal violence.
Rohingya refugees leave their footwear outside a mosque for prayers in Kutupalong camp. The Rohingya are a deeply conservative Muslim minority from western Myanmar, where decades of state-sanctioned oppression and violent persecution has forced them out. An army purge beginning in August 2017 has forced more than 700,000 Rohingya over the border into Bangladesh.
Saleema Khanam (L), studies inside a makeshift madrassa with other students in Kutupalong camp, near Cox’s Bazar. She takes her position in the front, flanked by two brothers, and opens the book. “I come here to learn the Quran. My mother wants me and my brothers to learn, to become better people,” the young student told.
Saleema steps carefully through the crowded alleyways in Kutupalong with her blue-bound Quran held tight to her chest, removes her shoes and enters the dimly-lit classroom. Since formal schooling — which suggests a permanent presence — is not allowed in the camps, for many children the madrassas are the only places to learn.
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