In the month of August 2012, the holy Eid-ul-Fitr is held. On that day, whether Rohingya teenager Rabi Alam does not know whether life will come again. On the same day, the last seven brothers got together for the last time. Then these eight brothers were not placed under another roof. They are a family member. But their place is now in four countries!
Robi (16), rising from the Rohingya shelter in Kutupalong of Bangladesh. Except for the uncertain future, the teenager was saying that in a country, a family member, they were under one roof. One day, raising allegations against some Rohingya Muslims for rape and murder of a Buddhist woman in Myanmar's Rakhine was launched by the extremist Rakhine Buddhists and the army's expedition. The villages after the Rohingya village are burnt to the village. In the turmoil caused by the traditional conflict of Rohingya and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists, the black chapter started in their family.
According to Rabi, their house in Ye Twin Kuan village of Maungdaw district of Rakhine state. Nearly six years have elapsed after being evicted from the village. For the last few years, they have been living in eight brothers in Bangladesh, India, the United States and Myanmar.
One brother of Robi is now in Myanmar jail. Another brother disappeared while trying to move to Malaysia. It is not known where its position is currently. In 2012, when the brothers of Rabi celebrated Eid with the last time, the number of Rakhine Rohingya residents was about 1.2 million. The number of security forces and the oppression has now dropped below one-third.
Robi and his other three brothers Jaber (18), Hashim (17) and Faiz (12) are now separated from Rohingya shelters in Kutupalong after separating from the big four brothers. They came to Bangladesh in October 2016. With the mother and 15 other people, they have to live together in a small house.
Robi says, 'We can not work here. We do not know anything about this place. But how to return to Myanmar again?
Robi's eldest brother Mohammad Rashid. In the beginning of 2013, he left Rakhine for Malaysia by crossing the Naf river to Bangladesh. Robi started showing a picture of a 25-year-old brother on a mobile phone, saying, 'Since then, I have never heard of him.'
Another elder brother Abdur Rashid (23) left Rakhine in early 2014. Bangladesh and Thailand took shelter in United Nations refugee camp by visiting the United States. Now working in the cake making factory. Mother Khadija Begum said, 'I have tried many things to stop her (Abdur Rashid); I have pleaded with you. But he did not. '
Another brother Abul Kashem (19) left Rakhine in 2013 or 2014. Now working as a mason in Haryana, India.
Hamid Hussain (28), the eldest of eight brothers. On October 9, 2016, another round of Rakhine went on fire. Then the government issued the curfew. He was arrested and later imprisoned for his alleged breach of curfew. Now there are in prison.
This is not the end of eight brothers' separation. But they survived. But their father Nagu Miah (60) could not live from the law enforcement agencies of Myanmar. The family complained, the police beat him.
