When I meet Anjuma she is sitting on a cot in the corner of her bamboo hut with a cloth held up to her face. She whimpers as her eyes look to the group of children peering in. A curtain is drawn and the children strain to overhear, but it becomes quickly apparent they needn't bother. Anjuma can no longer speak, a result of the cancer that has engulfed her face over the years spent in the Dar Paing unregistered camp. She is 22 years old.
Anjuma is a member of Myanmar's Rohingya ethnic group. The community practise a Sufi-inflected variation of Sunni Islam, which sees them systematically persecuted by the Buddhist majority. When she was 18 violence broke out in the state of Rakhine State and Rohingya villages were burned down by Buddhist locals. The violence left 192 dead, and 140,000 Rohingya children, women, and men were forced into the camp complex where they've been detained for the last four years. (Courtesy of vice.com)
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