The Story of My Life: Rohingya Youth Perspective
The Story of My Life by Arafat Islam* We are Rohingya refugees who have risked a lot of things to be where we are now. It’s all thanks to God that we have come this far and are in a safe place now. In our country (Myanmar), there are a lot of things going on. We could barely be outside or even go anywhere without feeling scared and afraid. Most of our villages get burned down by the military when they see us; they do not recognize us as people. Instead, they probably think we are some kind of people that do not belong in this world, but we are all still human beings, just like everyone else. Many of our people get killed whenever they lay their eyes on us or spot us. We could barely be anywhere because they made us fear what they would do to us if they found us. We went through so much trouble to escape because if we got caught, it would be all over for us. So many days went by, and after so much traveling, we finally made it out safely to Malaysia. In around 2007, my dad went t...