The Rohingya

Of all the places I’ve traveled to and of all the people I’ve had the opportunity to meet, there’s no one else that has shared a story with so much pain than the story Bennu and Darkar shared with me during a recent trip to Bangladesh. Here’s how she began:

“The Burmese people kicked us out of our home in the middle of the night. They burned our crops and our house. They threatened our lives with guns. We trekked 17 days through the country with nothing, except what we could carry on our backs, to get to safety. And here we are now.”

It broke my heart to hear this.

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