Background research:

Bangladesh faced and still faces serious challenges related to refugees, mostly the Rohingya crisis. Since their arrival in the early 1990s and then again during periods of persecution in Myanmar in the 2012, 2016, and 2017, Rohingya refugees have progressively hunted safety in Bangladesh. The invasion has had severe demographic, socio-economic and environmental impacts.

In July 31st, in the year of 2017, Bangladesh officially secured 33,542 Rohingya refugees in cramped camps like Kutupalong and Nayapara, whilst over a million lived outside these factions. Despite numerous international efforts to banish the crisis, the situation remained and still remains complex.

The Rohingya, is a Muslim ethnic group with a unique language, have lived in Myanmar for many centuries but in 1982 were citizenship, labelling them stateless. This has refutation fuelled their persecution which led to forced migration.

The connection between Bangladesh and Myanmar is fatigued due to the Rohingya crisis, which has been dragged on since the late 1970s. Myanmar’s military government has labeled Rohingyas as illegal immigrants causing in the promption of violence and displacement. The military has operated many attacks against the Rohingya since 1948, accelerating the widespread of human rights abuses.

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Response:

The exhibition trail was all over St Helier where it showed a various of informative images. The images had a clear and serious message and it made me feel really upset that these innocent people are living these harsh, underserved lives. The images shows me this different perspective towards the whole situation and my attitude towards it has definitively changed from the first time I heard about it, especially with how informative it is. The format of the images show the organisation that sponsors the Rohingya people