In 2012, when violence erupted between Rohingya and Rakhine communities, Zaw Rina’s home in Pauktaw town was burned down. She was forced to flee with her family to a camp in Ah Nauk Ywe on a difficult-to-reach island in the remote western part of the state. The impermanence of the fragile bamboo structure she lives in now belies the decade she has spent in the camp.
10 years after being forced to flee violence, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya are still living in horrendous conditions with serious mental health conditions.
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SRI AMAN: “My wife insisted to send our two daughters back to their school in Kuching yesterday,” said Mohamad Hamzah Razali, the husband of Siti Aish.