The Rohingya is an ethnic group in Myanmar that has been the subject of many recent worldwide reports. The woman with the scarred face was Rohingya. I was in a Rohingya refugee camp near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. I sat there, stunned, wishing I could tell her something to ease her anguish something to make her forget. It came out of her in an impassioned torrent that could not be slowed.

Her scarred face was dimly lit in the small hut that was provided by the United Nations. The world needs to help these people. Only international pressure can put a stop to the killing.” Please note that some details in this article are graphic and may be distressing.

“They asked me to tell the people of the United States that a genocide was occurring in Myanmar. “There was little I could offer to comfort them,” he recalls. On days he was not working with her, he hired a translator and went out amongst the Rohingya to record their images and hear their stories. He was working as a photographer with a filmmaker from London who was making a documentary on the plight of Rohingya women in the refugee camps near Cox’s Bazar in southeast Bangladesh. USD alumnus Stephen Wallace was in Bangladesh recently.

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