On March 5, 2023, a fire destroyed a section of the Balukhali Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh. Over 2,000 shelters were destroyed. All of the family documents Mohammed Yunus (79) carried with him when he fled Burma in 2017 were destroyed.
Along with shelters, the fires destroy the last remaining evidence many Rohingya families possess of their family history and connection to Burma.
“Nearly all the documents of my family were destroyed in the fire. The documents go back over 80 years.”
Mohammed Y (79)
Ershat H (57), 2023