Border News Agency
Cox’sBazzar,June 20, 2025
Today, on World Refugee Day, a group of young Rohingya boys and girls stood behind a barbed-wire fence in a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh — not in silence, but with powerful messages in their hands.
With signs reading “Refugee is not my name,” “We never chose to be refugees,” and “We dream too,” the children shared what it truly means to grow up stateless, displaced, and forgotten yet still hopeful.
Organized by community youth leaders, this peaceful photo demonstration highlights the urgent need for dignity, justice, and durable solutions for the nearly one million Rohingya who fled brutal military violence in Myanmar.
“We’re not asking for charity. We’re asking for justice,” one sign read.
“You see camps. We see life paused,” read another.
These handwritten messages serve as a direct reminder to the global community: the refugee crisis is not just about numbers, aid, or borders. It’s about human beings children who deserve to grow up with opportunity, safety, and freedom.
Over 700,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar in 2017 following military crackdowns described by the UN as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing.” Eight years later, the future of this community remains uncertain, trapped between a homeland they cannot return to and a stateless existence in overcrowded camps.
But the youth continue to rise.
This World Refugee Day, they are not asking for sympathy. They are demanding justice. Recognition. Hope.
