Rohingya youth trapped in violence and despair in Cox’s Bazar

On 25 August, 2017, the Myanmar navy launched a wave violence in opposition to the Rohingya in Rakhine state in response to Rohingya ARSA militant raids on 17 police stations. Fifty-five villages can be burned and later bulldozedhttps://www.bbc.com/information/world-asia-43174936#.

MSF documented 6,700 murders in the course of the 30 days following 25 August, of whom 730 have been youngstershttps://www.msf.org/myanmarbangladesh-‘no-one-was-left’-death-and-violence-against-rohingya. This resulted in an estimated 688,000 primarily Rohingya folks from Rakhine State fleeing into Cox’s Bazar in neighbouring Bangladesh. 

Six years after their huge exodus from Myanmar, the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are nonetheless dwelling in precarious circumstances in insalubrious camps the place they’re confined. 

Out of Concern is a 28-minute documentary primarily based on Rohingya youth testimonies, highlighting the blatant despair and lack of views this new era is rising up in. The younger folks portrayed on this documentary have been both born stateless of their mother and father’ homeland of Myanmar earlier than fleeing widespread focused violence in 2017 – or have been born in refugee camps in Bangladesh the place almost a million folks dwell in limbo. 

The documentary focuses on a era of kids, youngsters, younger adults dwelling in containment amidst day by day violence, and their views for the longer term.