How Rohingya refugees are digitally reclaiming their culture

TRT WORLD
Tarushi Aswani
Feb 13, 2024,

An Istanbul-based youth or a refugee at a Bangladesh camp…Many people are striving to preserve the Rohingya way of life, which is under threat of being wiped out amid persecution in their ancestral land in Myanmar.

Others ,For nearly 3 million Rohingya in exile, creative initiatives give them hope and solace as they dream of returning to their homeland one day and living in peace as a community. / Photo: Zita Tv

Sufaira Begum, 15, is among an estimated one million Rohingya Muslims who call the world's largest refugee camp in Bangladesh’s Cox's Bazar their home.

Race, Ethnicity, and Culture: How do Rohingya Explain Concepts that Undermine their Existence?

THE GLOBAL POST
By Cresa Pugh
April 9, 2019

Myanmar Rohingya refugees in a refugee camp in Teknaf, in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar. Photo: Munir Uz Zaman, AFP

Following a series of state-sponsored military campaigns involving torture, rape, and mass killings, nearly 800,000 Rohingya, Myanmar’s largest Muslim ethnic minority group, have fled the country since August 2017.

In addition to these attacks, Rohingya and other Muslims throughout the Asian country have, over the last seven years, been the target of intercommunal violence at the hands of Buddhist nationalists.