A woman and a child are seen on the backdrop of temporary shelters set up for displaced Rohingya refugees days after a fire at a refugee camp in Ukhia, in the southeastern Cox’s Bazar district on March 24, 2021 in which 15 people died. (Photo by Munir Uz Zaman/AFP)
June 21 2021
A group of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are learning the art of photography at a local media school to help them document conditions in the sprawling camps where they live and even go on to become professional journalists.
Nearly one million Rohingya are living in often squalid tent cities in the district of Cox’s Bazar near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border since fleeing a military crackdown in Myanmar’s Rakhine state nearly four years ago.
It is the world’s largest refugee settlement.
The Rohingya are a minority group, most of whom are denied citizenship by Buddhist-majority Myanmar.
They have been widely referred to as Bengali by Myanmar authorities, implying they are outsiders from Bangladesh, though some can trace their roots in Myanmar back for centuries.
Omar’s Film School was founded in February last year with the goal of training young Rohingya refugees and helping them find careers in photojournalism.
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