HONY: Rohingya Refugees

The Facebook sensation Humans of New York is currently reporting stories of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. The first story is both horrific and moving.

This young man told HONY:

It was early in the morning when the military came. I woke up to a big sound that sounded like a bomb blast. Then the shooting started and everyone was screaming. We ran for our lives. It was dark and there were people running all around us. It only took us thirty minutes to get to safety because our village is close to the border. But then some of us decided to go back. There were five of us. We were curious. We wanted to see what happened to the others. We crawled on our stomachs to the top of a hill, and looked down at our village. There were so many dead bodies. Some of them were my cousins. I saw a girl from school with three soldiers kneeling on top of her. They were covering her mouth so she wouldn’t scream. I felt so dizzy. I couldn’t stand up. I used to have a dream that I was going to grow up and help my family. I was studying hard. Now I don’t even know why I’d want to live in this world.

Along with shedding light on the dire situation of the Rohingya, HONY is raising funds to help build inexpensive bamboo houses for the refugees.

-KitJ