A daily battle for survival

Bleak situation: The biggest worry of most Rohingya refugees in Malaysia, especially for those who have been here for 10-20 years and more, is the future of their children.

THEY started shooting randomly – woman, child, they didn’t care. I heard about 1,000 people were killed that day,” Rafik Shah Mohd Ismail recalls the violent attack of the national army on the Rohingya in Maungdaw, a town in the Rakhine State of Myanmar.

“No one dared to go out and we huddled in a corner of the house with all the windows and doors shut, praying the soldiers would not come for us,” he adds.