By Stefanie Glinski
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh, Oct 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Shupira sits surrounded by dozens of children drawing colourful patterns onto white sheets of paper.
But the eight-year-old’s picture is turning out differently.
With a grey pen, she sketches houses full of people, then switching colours to orange, she sets the buildings on fire with her small, delicate hand.
She pauses to look up.
“This is my village. It’s what I saw.”
Shupira is a Rohingya Muslim and she has lost everything.
More than half of the 1.1 million Rohingya population – over 600,000 – has fled to Bangladesh since 25 August, making it the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis. Those in flight accuse security forces of arson, killings and rape in what the United Nations calls a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.
