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I think they shot me by mistake: Rohingya refugee child's innocence will move you to tears
The United Nations programme UNICEF has been narrating heart-breaking stories about Rohingya refugee children. Muhammad is one of them.
IndiaToday.in | Written by Ganesh Kumar Radha Udayakumar
New Delhi, October 27, 2017 | UPDATED 14:27 IST
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Alam Muhammad Yunus. Source: Video screengrab
Little Alam Muhammad Yunus sits cross-legged on a chair. He waits quietly as grown-ups tend to him, and his thin arms and legs are still.
A cotton swab enters the frame. It traces a trembling arc through the air before resting on a wound on his left leg.
"A bullet hit my foot," Muhammad says. His eyes, large and brown, widen ever-so-slightly. But they are brave and poised, and betray no sign of pain.
"I think they shot me by mistake. They meant to shoot big people."
Muhammad is a Rohingya refugee.
The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), which supports the heath centre where Muhammad underwent treatment, says more than 320,000 children like him have fled to Bangladesh since late August.
That is when Myanmar's military, in response to militant attacks, began operations in Rakhine state that the US Ambassador to the UN called "a brutal, sustained campaign to cleanse " Bangladesh of the Rohingya, an ethnic minority.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council in late September that the testimonies of women, children and the elderly who had fled the violence were "bone-chilling."
"They came into our village and burned everything," Muhammad says. "They started shooting at everyone."
Who is to blame for these horrors?
If you ask another Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize - it rests squarely on the shoulders of fellow laureate Aung Saan Suu Kyi, Myanmar's State Counsellor.
In an interview with Al-Jazeera, Yunus said, "I'll put 100 percent of the blame on her because she is the leader,"
UNICEF filmed the younger Muhammad in Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh. It has told other heart-rending stories, including young Munjurali's. This 11-year-old refugee draws to cope with loss and upheaval.
The pictures are simple: the humans, buildings, and vehicles are all two-dimensional. But there is no mistaking the dark green military uniform, the pencil-drawn machine gun, or the vast pools of red.
"They killed my two sisters. So we fled here," narrates the little boy.
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/rohingya-refugee-unicef-myanmar-bangladesh/1/1076478.html
The United Nations programme UNICEF has been narrating heart-breaking stories about Rohingya refugee children. Muhammad is one of them.
IndiaToday.in | Written by Ganesh Kumar Radha Udayakumar
New Delhi, October 27, 2017 | UPDATED 14:27 IST
A +A -
Little Alam Muhammad Yunus sits cross-legged on a chair. He waits quietly as grown-ups tend to him, and his thin arms and legs are still.
A cotton swab enters the frame. It traces a trembling arc through the air before resting on a wound on his left leg.
"A bullet hit my foot," Muhammad says. His eyes, large and brown, widen ever-so-slightly. But they are brave and poised, and betray no sign of pain.
"I think they shot me by mistake. They meant to shoot big people."
Muhammad is a Rohingya refugee.
The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), which supports the heath centre where Muhammad underwent treatment, says more than 320,000 children like him have fled to Bangladesh since late August.
That is when Myanmar's military, in response to militant attacks, began operations in Rakhine state that the US Ambassador to the UN called "a brutal, sustained campaign to cleanse " Bangladesh of the Rohingya, an ethnic minority.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council in late September that the testimonies of women, children and the elderly who had fled the violence were "bone-chilling."
"They came into our village and burned everything," Muhammad says. "They started shooting at everyone."
Who is to blame for these horrors?
If you ask another Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize - it rests squarely on the shoulders of fellow laureate Aung Saan Suu Kyi, Myanmar's State Counsellor.
In an interview with Al-Jazeera, Yunus said, "I'll put 100 percent of the blame on her because she is the leader,"
UNICEF filmed the younger Muhammad in Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh. It has told other heart-rending stories, including young Munjurali's. This 11-year-old refugee draws to cope with loss and upheaval.
The pictures are simple: the humans, buildings, and vehicles are all two-dimensional. But there is no mistaking the dark green military uniform, the pencil-drawn machine gun, or the vast pools of red.
"They killed my two sisters. So we fled here," narrates the little boy.
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/rohingya-refugee-unicef-myanmar-bangladesh/1/1076478.html
