(25 Aug 2025)
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Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh – 25 August 2025
1. Wide pan of Rohingya refugees at rally
2. Wide of a refugee on stage shouting slogan (English) “We want” with pan to Rohingya refugees shouting slogan (English) “justice”
3. Mid of refugees singing on stage
4. Various of refugees shouting slogan (English) “we want justice”
5. Various of refugees chanting holding placards reading (English) “Restore Rohingya citizenship"
6. Various of refugees at rally
7. Various of refugees looking on at rally
8. SOUNDBITE (Rohingya Dialect) Md Sharif Hussain, 35, Rohingya Refugee:
"We are such an oppressed community. We are asking the world for our justice, crying as there is no justice for us, so that they help us get the justice. The government of Myanmar tortured us so much. If the government (of Bangladesh) wants to take us to Myanmar, we want to be equal to other ethnic groups. The way they are citizens of that country, we want to be the same citizens as them.”
9. Various of refugees, including children, marching and chanting
STORYLINE:
Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, living in dozens of camps in Bangladesh, marked the eighth anniversary of their mass exodus, demanding safe return to their previous home in Rakhine state.
The refugees gathered Monday in an open field at a camp in Kutupalong, in the Cox’s Bazar district of Bangladesh, carrying banners and festoons reading "No more refugee life” and "Restore Rohingya citizenship".
The day was marked as “Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day".
A separate three-day conference began Sunday in Cox’s Bazar. International dignitaries, United Nations representatives, diplomats and Bangladesh’s interim government are set to discuss supporting refugees with food and other amenities and how to speed up the repatriation process.
Bangladesh’s interim leader, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, is expected to speak Monday.
While Bangladesh and the U.N. have long campaigned for the safe return of more than 1 million refugees, the situation inside Myanmar has remained volatile, especially in their previous home in Rakhine state. In Bangladesh, Rohingya refugees face challenges including aid cuts by donors.
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims began leaving Myanmar for Bangladesh on Aug. 25, 2017. They travelled by foot and boats during shelling, indiscriminate killings and other violence in Rakhine state, which has been captured by the Arakan Army insurgent group that has battled against Myanmar government soldiers.
The refugees protesting Monday at Kutupalong, one of the largest of more than 30 Rohingya camps, expressed frustration over the rise of Arakan Army and the situation contributing to uncertainty over their return.
Myanmar launched a brutal crackdown in August 2017 following insurgent attacks on guard posts in Rakhine state. The scale, organization and ferocity of the operation led to accusations of ethnic cleansing and genocide from the international community, including the U.N.
The Bangladesh government, which was led at the time by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, ordered the border to be opened, eventually allowing more than 700,000 refugees to take shelter in the Muslim-majority nation. The influx was in addition to more than 300,000 refugees who already had lived in Bangladesh for decades in the wake of previous violence perpetrated by Myanmar’s military.
AP Video by Shafiqur Rahman
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