The award-winning photojournalist captures the despair of some of the 600,000 people forced to flee Myanmar for Bangladesh in 2017
, where they faced inhuman treatment
he American photojournalist Paula Bronstein took this picture of Rohingya refugees fleeing from Myanmar into Bangladesh in 2017. It is included in a retrospective exhibition of four decades of her photography at this year’sas part of a report that detailed the systematic burning of Rohingya villages and the rape and murder of thousands of villagers. It was estimated that around 600,000 people crossed the border in a few days, taking refuge in makeshift camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district.
Bronstein has covered just about every mass human tragedy in recent years, with ongoing award-winning projects documenting the women and children who are victims of war in Afghanistan and Ukraine. About a millionMuslims remain stranded in the desperate camps near the border. They are banned from travel or work, and without any kind of adequate health system.
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