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Saturday 9 September 2017

Ever Closer / 96 Tears for the Rohingya (What They Carry) / Rocking Horse Dreams with Lifeboat and Smoke Alarm

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Bangladesh Myanmar Attacks 
Rohingya Mubarak Begum, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, holds a photograph of her family members, in Kutupalong, Bangladesh, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017. Begum says the government took pictures of Rohingya families annually to track their numbers. Her daughter Rubina Begum (face scratched ) was not able to make the crossing with them and is still in Maungdaw.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 7 September 2017

Bangladesh Myanmar Attacks

Rohingya Mubarak Begum, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, holds a photograph of her family members, in Kutupalong, Bangladesh, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017. Begum says the government took pictures of Rohingya families annually to track their numbers. Her daughter Rubina Begum (face scratched ) was not able to make the crossing with them and is still in Maungdaw.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 7 September 2017

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Untitled [Sun Valley, CA): photo by ashnolo, 4 September 2017

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Untitled [Sun Valley, CA): photo by ashnolo, 4 September 2017

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Untitled [Sun Valley, CA): photo by ashnolo, 4 September 2017

Rocking Horse Dreams with Lifeboat and Smoke Alarm

South Central Avenue | by GC_Dean

South Central Avenue. Phoenix, Arizona.
: photo by Dean Terasaki, 5 September 2017


South Central Avenue | by GC_Dean

South Central Avenue. Phoenix, Arizona.
: photo by Dean Terasaki, 5 September 2017


South Central Avenue | by GC_Dean

South Central Avenue. Phoenix, Arizona.
: photo by Dean Terasaki, 5 September 2017


The New Navaho Bridge | by GC_Dean

The New Navaho Bridge. Looking southwest from the Historic Navaho Bridge. This view includes Marble Canyon, the Colorado River, and the current route for Highway 89A.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 5 September 2017

The New Navaho Bridge | by GC_Dean

The New Navaho Bridge. Looking southwest from the Historic Navaho Bridge. This view includes Marble Canyon, the Colorado River, and the current route for Highway 89A.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 5 September 2017

The New Navaho Bridge | by GC_Dean

The New Navaho Bridge. Looking southwest from the Historic Navaho Bridge. This view includes Marble Canyon, the Colorado River, and the current route for Highway 89A.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 5 September 2017


I-84 now closed in the Columbia River Gorge because of fire threat. WB traffic must exit at exit 62, EB traffic at exit 63.: image via Oregon DOT @OregonDOT, 4 September 2017


#eaglecreekfire surrounds Munra Point in the Columbia River Gorge. Level 3 evacuations in place for Warrendale and Dodson.: image via Multnomah Co Sheriff @MultCoSo, 4 September 2017


It's incredibly sad to see the damage from the fire in our scenic Columbia River gorge.: image via Mike Reese @SheriffReese, 5 September 2017


Deputy Bohrer caught this photo while on patrol west of Cascade Locks. #EagleCreekFire: image via Multnomah Co Sheriff @MultCoSo, 8 September 2017
 

In the pantheon of visual metaphors for America today, this is the money shot.: image via David Simon @AoDespair, 7 September 2017


In fact, a brilliant illustration of cultural and climate denial. (Beacon Rock WA. "Our golfers are committed to finishing the round!").: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 7 September 2017


Waves crash on the seafront boulevard of El Malecon in Havana, Cuba
: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 9 September 2017


Haiti Hurricane Irma

 Lucita Leonce 71, complains in front of her home flooded by heavy rains brought on by Hurricane Irma, in Fort-Liberte, Haiti, Friday Sept. 8, 2017. Irma rolled past the Dominican Republic and Haiti and battered the Turks and Caicos Islands early Friday with waves as high as 20 feet (6 meters).: photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP, 8 September 2017

Haiti Hurricane Irma

 Lucita Leonce 71, complains in front of her home flooded by heavy rains brought on by Hurricane Irma, in Fort-Liberte, Haiti, Friday Sept. 8, 2017. Irma rolled past the Dominican Republic and Haiti and battered the Turks and Caicos Islands early Friday with waves as high as 20 feet (6 meters).: photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP, 8 September 2017

Cuba Hurricane Irma

 Residents watch a televised weather forecast hours before the arrival of Hurricane Irma, in Caibarien, Cuba, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017. Cuba evacuated tourists from beachside resorts after Hurricane Irma left thousands homeless on a devastated string of Caribbean islands and spun toward Florida for what could be a catastrophic blow this weekend.: photo by Desmond Boylan/AP, 8 September 2017

 Cuba Hurricane Irma
  
Residents watch a televised weather forecast hours before the arrival of Hurricane Irma, in Caibarien, Cuba, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017. Cuba evacuated tourists from beachside resorts after Hurricane Irma left thousands homeless on a devastated string of Caribbean islands and spun toward Florida for what could be a catastrophic blow this weekend.: photo by Desmond Boylan/AP, 8 September 2017 

Cuba Hurricane Irma

Handlers from the Cayo Guillermo dolphinarium prepare dolphins for their transfer to the dolphinarium in Cienfuegos, located on Cuba's southern coast, just hours before the arrival of Hurricane Irma, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017. Irma spun along the northern coast of Cuba, where thousands of tourists were evacuated from low-lying keys off the coast dotted with all-inclusive resorts.: photo by Osvaldo Gutierrez Gomez/ACN via AP, 8 September 2017

Cuba Hurricane Irma

Handlers from the Cayo Guillermo dolphinarium prepare dolphins for their transfer to the dolphinarium in Cienfuegos, located on Cuba's southern coast, just hours before the arrival of Hurricane Irma, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017. Irma spun along the northern coast of Cuba, where thousands of tourists were evacuated from low-lying keys off the coast dotted with all-inclusive resorts.: photo by Osvaldo Gutierrez Gomez/ACN via AP, 8 September 2017


Over 60 dead after Mexico's strongest quake in 85 years: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 9 September 2017

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Found this particularly painful, the "temblor" reasserting its place in the heritage. #MexicoEarthquake #Saragoza #Oaxaca @AFPphoto: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 9 September 2017

Peering Toddler Border Wall

A Border Patrol vehicle drives in front of a mural in Tecate, Mexico, just beyond a border structure Friday, Sept. 8, 2017, in Tecate, Calif. French artist JR erected a 65-foot-tall cut-out photo of a Mexican boy by pasting it to scaffolding built in Mexico and is aiming to prompt discussions about immigration. The image overlooks a section of wall on the California border and will be there for a month.: photo by Gregory Bull/AP, 8 September 2017

Peering Toddler Border Wall

A Border Patrol vehicle drives in front of a mural in Tecate, Mexico, just beyond a border structure Friday, Sept. 8, 2017, in Tecate, Calif. French artist JR erected a 65-foot-tall cut-out photo of a Mexican boy by pasting it to scaffolding built in Mexico and is aiming to prompt discussions about immigration. The image overlooks a section of wall on the California border and will be there for a month.: photo by Gregory Bull/AP, 8 September 2017

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Looking at @Getty 9/11 anniversary pkg. 16 yrs in, Ground Zero more an icon for architecture, real estate, tourism.: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 9 September 2017
 
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It would be comic if problems weren't a mile high, and the relationship w the press wasn't in the tank. Shouting from afar. Photo @WinMc @Getty: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 9 September 2017

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President Donald Trump shouts to reporters as he walks with first lady Melania Trump to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017, in Washington.: photo by Evan Vucci/AP, 8 September 2017

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President Donald Trump shouts to reporters as he walks with first lady Melania Trump to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017, in Washington.: photo by Evan Vucci/AP, 8 September 2017


A man sits on a lifeguard tower as Hurricane Irma approaches in Hollywood, Florida
: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 9 September 2017

 Hurricane Irma Florida

A woman walks through a nearly empty passage at Miami International Airport, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017 in Miami. Hurricane Irma scraped Cuba's northern coast Friday on a course toward Florida, leaving in its wake a ravaged string of Caribbean resort islands strewn with splintered lumber, corrugated metal and broken concrete.: photo by Wilfredo Lee/AP, 8 September 2017

Hurricane Irma Florida

A woman walks through a nearly empty passage at Miami International Airport, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017 in Miami. Hurricane Irma scraped Cuba's northern coast Friday on a course toward Florida, leaving in its wake a ravaged string of Caribbean resort islands strewn with splintered lumber, corrugated metal and broken concrete.: photo by Wilfredo Lee/AP, 8 September 2017


A girl ties her home closed with a string as her family leave for a local shelter ahead of Hurricane Irma in Florida
: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 9 September 2017



  From left-to-right: Katia, Irma, and Jose. Collectively, this is the most active (strength + size) the Atlantic has seen in recorded history.: image via Eric Holthaus @EricHolthaus, 8 September 2017


I must not be sleeping enough, I'm starting to see shapes in the clouds.: image via Marcus Yam @yamphoto, 18 September 2017

See The Living God! Alive and Inside! | by david grim

See The Living God! Alive and Inside! [Buckeye, Cleveland]
: photo by David Grim, 30 May 2017


See The Living God! Alive and Inside! | by david grim

See The Living God! Alive and Inside! [Buckeye, Cleveland]
: photo by David Grim, 30 May 2017


See The Living God! Alive and Inside! | by david grim

See The Living God! Alive and Inside! [Buckeye, Cleveland]
: photo by David Grim, 30 May 2017


Whites | by ADMurr

Whites [Memphis, TN]
: photo by Andrew Murr, 7 September 2017


Rootman's Out of Sight Cafe -- Must be 21 | by ADMurr

Rootman's Out Of Sight Cafe - Must Be 21.
Another club passes into history. [Yazoo City, MS]. Another club passes into history.: photo by Andrew Murr, 9 September 2017

Insight | by ADMurr

Insight [Memphis, TN]
: photo by Andrew Murr, 7 September 2017


Chillin & Grillin | by ADMurr

Chillin an' grillin [Memphis, TN]
: photo by Andrew Murr, 8 September 2017


Falls Road | by ADMurr

Falls Road [Baltimore]
: photo by Andrew Murr, 8 September 2017


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Untitled [Baltimore]
: photo by Patrick, June 2017


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Trinidad, Colorado: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, October 2016

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Tucumcari, New Mexico
: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, October 2016


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S. | by Marcin Butryn

S. [Lublin, Poland]: photo by Marcin Butryn, 24 February 2017

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DSCF4473-1 | by Albino Jazz Singer

DSCF4473-1: photo by Albino Jazz Singer, 30 June 2014

DSCF4473-1 | by Albino Jazz Singer

DSCF4473-1: photo by Albino Jazz Singer, 30 June 2014

DSCF4473-1 | by Albino Jazz Singer

DSCF4473-1: photo by Albino Jazz Singer, 30 June 2014

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Another day at the animal park: photo by Oscar_from_Denmark, 23 October 2014

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Untitled. Mexico City, 2016.
: photo by Ken Walton, 22 December 2016


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Untitled. Mexico City, 2016.
: photo by Ken Walton, 22 December 2016


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Untitled. Mexico City, 2016.
: photo by Ken Walton, 22 December 2016


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Follow the Path | by instagram.com/the_big_smoke_/

Follow the Path [London]
: photo by the_big_smoke/, 10 September 2015


Follow the Path | by instagram.com/the_big_smoke_/

Follow the Path [London]
: photo by
the_big_smoke/, 10 September 2015

Follow the Path | by instagram.com/the_big_smoke_/

Follow the Path [London]
: photo by
the_big_smoke/, 10 September 2015

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08-07806: photo by Albino Jazz Singer, 20 October 2016

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08-07806: photo by Albino Jazz Singer, 20 October 2016

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Rohingya refugees reach for food aid at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhiya near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, August 30, 2017.: photo by AFP/Stringer, 31 August 2017

Bangladesh Myanmar Attacks

A Rohingya woman breaks down after a fight erupted during food distribution by local volunteers at Kutupalong, Bangladesh, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017. The massive refugee camp in Kutupalong was set up in the early 90s to accommodate the first waves of Rohingya Muslim refugees who started escaping convulsions of violence and persecution in Myanmar. With the current influx pushing existing Rohingya refugee camps like this one to the brink, Bangladesh pledged to build at least one more. The International Organization for Migration has pleaded for $18 million in foreign aid to help feed and shelter tens of thousands now packed into makeshift settlements or stranded in a no-man's land between the two countries' borders.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 8 September 2017

Bangladesh Myanmar Attacks

A Rohingya woman breaks down after a fight erupted during food distribution by local volunteers at Kutupalong, Bangladesh, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017. The massive refugee camp in Kutupalong was set up in the early 90s to accommodate the first waves of Rohingya Muslim refugees who started escaping convulsions of violence and persecution in Myanmar. With the current influx pushing existing Rohingya refugee camps like this one to the brink, Bangladesh pledged to build at least one more. The International Organization for Migration has pleaded for $18 million in foreign aid to help feed and shelter tens of thousands now packed into makeshift settlements or stranded in a no-man's land between the two countries' borders.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 8 September 2017

In this Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017 photo, Myanmar’s Rohingya ethnic minority refugees scuffle for food rations distributed by Bangladeshi volunteers near Cox’s Bazar’s Gundum area, Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
 
In this Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017 photo, Myanmar’s Rohingya ethnic minority refugees scuffle for food rations distributed by Bangladeshi volunteers near Cox’s Bazar’s Gundum area, Bangladesh.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 3 September 2017
 
FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017, file photo, Myanmar's Rohingya ethnic minority refugees walk after crossing the Bangladeshi border near Cox Bazar's Kanjopara area Bangladesh. The U.N. refugee agency is reporting a surge in the number of Rohingya Muslims who have crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar, with an estimated 270,000 arriving in the last two weeks. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

In this Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017, file photo, Myanmar's Rohingya ethnic minority refugees walk after crossing the Bangladeshi border near Cox Bazar's Kanjopara area Bangladesh. The U.N. refugee agency is reporting a surge in the number of Rohingya Muslims who have crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar, with an estimated 270,000 arriving in the last two weeks.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 3 September 2017

Displaced Rohingya refugees from Rakhine state in Myanmar walk near Ukhia, at the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar, as they flee violence on September 4, 2017. (AFP/K.M. Asad)

Displaced Rohingya refugees from Rakhine state in Myanmar walk near Ukhia, at the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar, as they flee violence on September 4, 2017.
: photo by K.M. Asad/AFP, 4 September/ 2017




Broken dishes can be seen in the burned-out remains of a house in Myo Thu Gyi village near Maungdaw, Rakhine State, Myanmar, on August 31, 2017.
: photo by AFP/Stringer, 31 August 2017

...water | by goodensnake

...water [Rakhine state, Myanmar]: photo by Claire Alexander, 12 January 2012

Village_Day_1_9153 | by goodensnake

Village_Day_1_953 [Rakhine state, Myanmar]: photo by Claire Alexander, 12 January 2012

Flag of Bangladesh at Village | by goodensnake

Flag of Bangladesh at Village [Rakhine state, Myanmar]: photo by Claire Alexander, 17 January 2012

96 Tears for the Rohingya

Myanmar Attacks

Smoke rises from a burned house in Gawdu Zara village, northern Rakhine state, Myanmar Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. Journalists saw new fires burning Thursday in the Myanmar village that had been abandoned by Rohingya Muslims, and where pages from the Quran were seen ripped and left on the ground.: photo by AP, 7 September 2017

Myanmar Attacks

Smoke rises from a burned house in Gawdu Zara village, northern Rakhine state, Myanmar Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. Journalists saw new fires burning Thursday in the Myanmar village that had been abandoned by Rohingya Muslims, and where pages from the Quran were seen ripped and left on the ground.: photo by AP, 7 September 2017


An estimated 270,000 Rohingya have sought refuge in Bangladesh over the past two weeks, U.N. refugee agency says. Photo: Rohingya refugees carry their child as they walk through water after crossing border by boat through the Naf River in Teknaf, Bangladesh. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 8 September 2017

Bangladesh Myanmar Attacks

A Rohingya woman comforts her exhausted son as they take shelter inside a school after having just arrived from the Myanmar side of the border at Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. Some 164,000 Rohingya from the area have fled across the border in Bangladesh in less than two weeks since Aug. 25, when Rohingya insurgents attacked police outposts in Gawdu Zara and several others, the U.N. refugee agency said Thursday.: photo by Bernat Armangue, 7 September 2017

 Bangladesh Myanmar Attacks

A Rohingya woman comforts her exhausted son as they take shelter inside a school after having just arrived from the Myanmar side of the border at Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. Some 164,000 Rohingya from the area have fled across the border in Bangladesh in less than two weeks since Aug. 25, when Rohingya insurgents attacked police outposts in Gawdu Zara and several others, the U.N. refugee agency said Thursday.: photo by Bernat Armangue, 7 September 2017

What They Carry

Rohingya Mubarak Begum, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, holds a photograph of her family members, in Kutupalong, Bangladesh, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017.  (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)  
Rohingya Mubarak Begum, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, holds a photograph of her family members, in Kutupalong, Bangladesh, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 8 September 2017

What Rohingya carry as they flee Myanmar violence: text by MUNEEZA NAQVI; photos by BERNAT ARMANGUE: AP, 8 September 2017

TEKNAF, Bangladesh (AP) -- Cellphones to reach out to separated relatives. Bags of spices that remind them of home. Solar panels to bring a little light to their ragged tents.

These are some of the things that group upon group of terrified, starving, exhausted ethnic Rohingya Muslims carry with them as they escape the violence that they’ve endured in Myanmar’s Rakhine state over the last two weeks.
 In this Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017, photo, a Rohingya Muslim man arrives with a sack of belongings and a kettle tied to a stick as he crosses the border into Bangladesh's Teknaf area. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

 In this Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017, photo, a Rohingya Muslim man arrives with a sack of belongings and a kettle tied to a stick as he crosses the border into Bangladesh's Teknaf area.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 7 September 2017

The exodus began Aug. 25, after Rohingya insurgents attacked police posts in Rakhine. The Myanmar government says nearly 400 people have been killed in fighting it blames on insurgents, though Rohingya say Myanmar troops and Buddhist mobs attacked them and destroyed their villages.

They packed a few precious items into used sacks and bamboo baskets, then fled on foot through forests, or on precarious boats on rain-swollen rivers.

In this Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017, photo, a Rohingya Muslim carries vegetables in a vessel after crossing over the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh in Teknaf area.(AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

In this Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017, photo, a Rohingya Muslim carries vegetables in a vessel after crossing over the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh in Teknaf area.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 7 September 2017
DOCUMENTS 

Many carry documents from their life back in Myanmar, wrapped in layers of plastic to protect them from the rain. National ID cards, school ID cards, little bits of laminated paper that prove that even their grandparents lived in that country.

One family brought land and property records, proof of less than an acre of land they bought in 1994. Also proof of their desire to one day return to the place they still call home.
 
A Rohingya Nur Bashar, who recently crossed over the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh, holds documents of property and land his family owns in Myanmar, in Kutupalong, Bangladesh, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

A Rohingya Nur Bashar, who recently crossed over the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh, holds documents of property and land his family owns in Myanmar, in Kutupalong, Bangladesh, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 8 September 2017

SOLAR PANELS

Small solar panels are everywhere in the makeshift refugee camp that has sprouted up to accommodate many of the more than 270,000 people the United Nations says have entered Bangladesh since the violence started.

A little girl carried a panel on her back as she crossed into Teknaf after braving a risky crossing on the Naf River that runs between Myanmar and Bangladesh. The dark-blue-and-white panels are also perched on the plastic roofs of their shelters.

“We got it so that in the dark we can have some light,” said one man.

Others use the solar panel to charge the other possession almost everyone brings.
 
In this Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017, photo, a Rohingya Muslim child carries a solar panel as she crosses over the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh in Teknaf area. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

 In this Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017, photo, a Rohingya Muslim child carries a solar panel as she crosses over the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh in Teknaf area.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 7 September 2017 
CELLPHONES

Tied in plastic pouches and hung around their necks, or tucked into the waistbands of their wraparounds, cellphones allow Rohingya to reach relatives who arrived in Bangladesh during earlier waves of fear-fueled migrations from Myanmar. They also allow them to reconnect with relatives they became separated from along the tricky journeys that bring them to safety.
 
In this Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017, photo, a mobile phone is charged by a solar panel brought across the border by a Rohingya in Teknaf area, Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

In this Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017, photo, a mobile phone is charged by a solar panel brought across the border by a Rohingya in Teknaf area, Bangladesh.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 7 September 2017 
MEMORY CARDS

Those who don’t carry cellphones still often bring memory cards from their abandoned phones. Some Rohingya said they erased personal photos and videos because they were afraid that Myanmar soldiers would use them to find and persecute their families left behind.


In this Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017, photo, a Rohingya Muslim displays a memory card carried across the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh in Teknaf area. Cellphones to reach out to separated relatives, bags of spices that remind them of home and solar panels to bring a little light to their ragged tents are some of the things the exhausted Rohingya Muslims carry with them as they escape the violence that they’ve endured in Myanmar’s Rakhine state over the last two weeks. Those who don’t carry phones still often bring memory cards from their abandoned ones. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
In this Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017, photo, a Rohingya Muslim displays a memory card carried across the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh in Teknaf area. Cellphones to reach out to separated relatives, bags of spices that remind them of home and solar panels to bring a little light to their ragged tents are some of the things the exhausted Rohingya Muslims carry with them as they escape the violence that they’ve endured in Myanmar’s Rakhine state over the last two weeks. Those who don’t carry phones still often bring memory cards from their abandoned ones.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 7 September 2017

SPICES


Food in the camps is scarce. Most people eat only when aid agencies or local volunteers bring bags of food, most often rice and watery curry.

But even in these dire circumstances, many Rohingya have brought with them spices from their homeland: pungent red chilies drying on plastic sheets; fiery chutneys in battered boxes; dried beef in bamboo cases.

“Even if all we get to eat is a plate of rice, we can burn a red chili and mix it and it will taste nice,” says a woman in the Kutupalong refugee camp

 In this Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017 photo, red chilis are spread on a plastic sheet carried across the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh by fleeing Rohingya Muslim in Teknaf area. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

In this Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017 photo, red chilis are spread on a plastic sheet carried across the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh by fleeing Rohingya Muslim in Teknaf area.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 7 September 2017
BIRDS


Rohingya had to leave behind the vast majority of their livestock. Cattle now wander among the blackened remains of their incinerated homes.

Some weary travelers, however, managed to tuck a chicken, duck or goose into their bags.

In this Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017 photo, a duck pops its neck out of a bag, carried across the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh by fleeing Rohingya Muslim in Teknaf area. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

In this Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017 photo, a duck pops its neck out of a bag, carried across the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh by fleeing Rohingya Muslim in Teknaf area.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 7 September 2017

history that inconvenient burden


An open letter from Desmond Tutu to Aung San Su Kyi on #RohingyaMuslims genocide: image via Dr Lauren Gavaghan @DancingTheMind, 8 September 2017


#AungSanSuuKyi is a criminal, if anything she deserves to be totally despised for her silence on atrocities against Rohingya! #HelpRohingya
: image via Samiullah Khan @Samiull89711825, 2 September 2017


#AungSanSuuKyi is a lesson in why the #NobelPeacePrize should only be awarded posthumously. #Myanmar #Burma #RohingyaGenocide: image via Habibies @Habibies, 3 September 2017

 

#TakeNobelBackFromAungSanSuuKyi Take nobel peace prize back from #AungSanSuuKyi. Retweet if u agree: image via Safdar sikandar @safdarjamali12, 5 September 2017


Why is #AungSanSuuKyi not being tried for genocide and crimes against humanity? How long will #Rohingya suffer??: image via ABS @absadir, 4 September

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Aung San Suu Kyi during the BBC interview: photo by BBC via The Independent, 25 March 2016
Aung San Suu Kyi made angry 'Muslim' comment after tense exchange with BBC presenter Mishal Husain, it is claimed: Burmese leader reportedly angered by questions about anti-Islamic attitudes in the country: Heather Saul, The Independent, 25 March 2016

Aung San Suu Kyi lost her cool following a tense interview with BBC presenter Mishal Husain and was heard muttering "no one told me I was going to be interviewed by a Muslim", it has been claimed.

The leader of Burma’s National League for Democracy was challenged on anti-Islamic attitudes and violence towards Muslims in Burma, a majority Buddhist nation where Muslims make up just four per cent of the population. 

When Husain asked about the plight of Muslims during the 203 interview, Ms Suu Kyi, who is expected to undertake a formal position in power next month, insisted it did not represent “ethnic cleansing”. 

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Aung San Suu Kyi, whose party is due to take over the government: photo by Getty via The Independent, 25 March 2016

“It's a new problem and yet it's linked to old problems as well,” she said.

“I would like to make the point that there are many moderate Muslims in Burma who have been well integrated into our society, but these problems arose last year and I think this is due to fear on both sides.

"This is what the world needs to understand; that the fear is not just to the side of the Muslims but on the side of the Buddhists as well.”

Husain pressed her to accept that the “vast majority” of victims of violence had been Muslim. 

And according to an excerpt in the book by Peter Popham, The Lady And The Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi And Burma’s Struggle For Freedom, Suu Kyi was so incensed about being challenged that she reportedly said off-air: “No one told me I was going to be interviewed by a Muslim."


Zardari and PPP leaders honoured this woman #AungSanSuuKyi who is killing Muslims in #Myanmar #Burma #RohingyaMuslims: image via Malik Zubair Awan @ZubairSabirPTI, 3 September 2017


Expose Gen Min Aung Hlaing, the com-in-chief, who is the real power behind the #EthnicCleansing of #Rohingya in #Burma: image via Mezanur Rashid @MezanurRashid, 8 September 2017 
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In this Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017 photo, 25-year-old Rohingya Muslim woman Zahida Begum cradles her few-hours-old son who she gave birth to alone in the toilet outside the room, at Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh. Begum had crossed into Bangladesh on Sept. 1, with her two young sons, husband and mother, fleeing shootings and arson attacks by Myanmar army soldiers and local monks. Through hours of walking through this massive refugee camp, set up in the early 90s to accommodate the first waves of Rohingya Muslim refugees who started escaping convulsions of violence and persecution in Myanmar, Associated Press reporters could not spot a single doctor. There are no clinics or pharmacies or even basic first aid centers.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 7 September 2017

Fleeing Rohingya face hunger, little hope in Bangladesh camp: Muneeza Naqvi, AP, 8 September 2017

KUTUPALONG REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh (AP) — In a corner of a room in a sprawling expanse of squalid shanties and tents, Zahida Begum holds in her arms the tiny boy she gave birth to just hours ago. Her eyes are blank.

The 25-year-old ethnic Rohingya Muslim crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar on Sept. 1 with her two young sons, husband and mother, fleeing shootings and arson attacks by Myanmar soldiers and Buddhist monks, her family says.

Having spent all their money on smugglers who helped them cross the Naf river to safety, she now sits afraid and unsure of what will come next.

The massive Kutupalong refugee camp of tiny mud houses covered with plastic sheets, with its overpowering stench of rotting food and feces, is now her home.

She gave birth alone, in the toilet outside the room, says her mother, Dildar Begum. The baby has not been fed since his birth 10 hours ago. She’s feverish and shivers so much that her mother lit a small, smoky fire to warm her up. She is still bleeding from the birth.

No doctor is in sight in the camp, set up in the early 1990s to accommodate earlier waves of Muslim Rohingya refugees escaping from convulsions of violence and persecution in Buddhist-majority Myanmar. There are no clinics or pharmacies or even basic first aid centers.

New arrivals like Begum and her family survive on the kindness of older refugees and on food handouts from local volunteers and aid groups: rice and curry once a day if they are lucky.

“She’s been crying from hunger,” her mother said of her weak and ailing daughter. Begum simply stares.

Myanmar’s government refuses to recognize Rohingya as a minority group and denies them citizenship, even though about 1 million were living there until two weeks ago and many families had been there for generations.

The exodus of Rohingya like Begum into neighboring Bangladesh is massive in scale. The United Nations says 270,000 have crossed over since Aug. 25. But it’s really impossible to accurately count how many have come.

Every single day thousands upon thousands enter Bangladesh. They cross the Naf river that runs between Myanmar and Bangladesh on rickety wooden boats. The journey is especially dangerous now because the river is swollen from months of monsoon rains. Others cross the land border between the two countries, walking for days through forests to escape detection.

In Bangladesh, one of the world’s poorest and most crowded countries, these people say they finally feel safe. But hunger and illness are a constant presence.

With the influx pushing existing Rohingya refugee camps like this one to the brink, Bangladesh has pledged to build at least one more. But it’s unclear when that will happen.

“Our teams are seeing streams of people arriving destitute and extremely traumatized,” including many in need of urgent medical care for violence-related injuries, the aid group Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, said in a statement.

The International Organization for Migration has pleaded for $18 million in donations to help feed and shelter tens of thousands now packed into makeshift settlements or stranded in a no-man’s land between the two countries’ borders.

In the Kutupalong camp, reporters saw several newly arrived children burning with high fevers. At the Cox’s Bazar district government hospital, four Rohingya men with gunshot wounds described Myanmar soldiers entering their villages and randomly opening fire. The hospital said it was treating 31 other men with gunshot wounds.

Myanmar’s government has denied any abuses by its troops and instead says it is fighting terrorists. It says a group of Rohingya insurgents and villagers themselves set fire to their own homes in Rakhine state.

It offers no explanation of why an already miserable and impoverished group of people would destroy their own homes and exhaust their meagre savings to take treacherous journeys to an unknown land for a life of extreme uncertainty.

In the camps it’s often hard to separate the anguish of the new arrivals from the suffering of those who have been here for years or decades.

Outside Begum’s room a young Rohingya man stands, holding back tears.

Kutupalong camp is the only home 22-year-old Farid has ever known. He was born here to parents who were part of the first wave of refugees to flee Myanmar.

He says life in the wretched place makes him doubt his faith in God.

He did not want to give his last name or be photographed because he has enrolled in a local school using fake Bangladeshi documents. As a refugee he is only given education up to the fifth grade.

“There is nothing, nothing here ... no doctors, clean water, education,” he said, rage and helplessness coursing through his skinny body.

He wants to be a doctor. He wants to break out of the cycle of misery his people have been trapped in for decades.
He flits between hope and despair, sometimes in the same sentence.

What of the tens of thousands of new refugees who are putting incredible pressure on the already teeming camp?

“These are my people. I’m also a Rohingya,” he said. “I want to help them, but I cannot.”

On Friday afternoon, two infants were interred in the cemetery that has grown on the edge of the camp.

A 6-day-old baby, born on the road as his family escaped, was buried next to a 2-day-old child born to a long-time resident.


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In this Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017 photo, 25-year-old Rohingya Muslim woman Zahida Begum cradles her few-hours-old son who she gave birth to alone in the toilet outside the room, as her husband Abdur Rahman mixes a plate of rice for his wife at Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh. Rahman had to leave his ailing wife and go search for food. He came back with the plate of rice and small bowl of curry. That food is the first food his wife and son shared all day.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 7 September 2017 
 
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Rohingya men dig a grave in Kutupalong’s refugee camp’s cemetery, Bangladesh, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017. This massive refugee camp was set up in the early 90s to accommodate the first waves of Rohingya Muslim refugees who started escaping convulsions of violence and persecution in Myanmar. With the current influx pushing existing Rohingya refugee camps like this one to the brink, Bangladesh pledged to build at least one more. The International Organization for Migration has pleaded for $18 million in foreign aid to help feed and shelter tens of thousands now packed into makeshift settlements or stranded in a no-man’s land between the two countries’ borders.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 8 September 2017 
 
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