AL Jazeera
by Katie Arnold
4 Dec 2016
by Katie Arnold
4 Dec 2016
Military uses indiscriminate violence in pursuit of Al Yaqeen fighters who demand equal rights for Rohingya Muslims.
Supporters rally against attacks on the Rohingya in Myanmar, in Dhaka, Bangladesh [Abir Abdullah/EPA]
When Faizul* fled the smouldering remains of his village in Myanmar's Northern Rakhine state, he barely noticed the shards of wood that punctured every extremity of his body. He just wanted to escape the bullets raining down from a helicopter above. But by the time he reached Bangladesh, a shrapnel wound on his right leg had grown to the size of a golf ball, and its yellow flesh was festering with signs of an infection.