Please note that the poems and essays on this site are copyright and may not be reproduced without the author's permission.


Sunday 15 October 2017

Nemesis

.
 
Kashmiri boatman rows his Shikara boat during sunset on Dal Lake in Srinagar.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 5 October 2017


A View of Famous Dal Lake in Srinagar: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 11 October 2017


The early morning floating vegetable Market on Dal Lake in Srinagar.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 17 September 2017 


The early morning floating vegetable Market on Dal Lake in Srinagar.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 5 September 2017


Funeral pictures of a Wasim Shah, a Top LeT Commander who was killed by security forces in a Gunbattle.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 14 October 2017


Funeral pictures of a Wasim Shah, a Top LeT Commander who was killed by security forces in a Gunbattle.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 14 October 2017


Funeral pictures of a Wasim Shah, a Top LeT Commander who was killed by security forces in a Gunbattle.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 14 October 2017


Funeral pictures of a Wasim Shah, a Top LeT Commander who was killed by security forces in a Gunbattle.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 14 October 2017 


Funeral pictures of a Wasim Shah, a Top LeT Commander who was killed by security forces in a Gunbattle.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 14 October 2017



School children walk back towards their home after their school during restrictions to prevent protests against the braid chopping, in Sgr.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 6 October 2017


A relative of a disappeared person holds a poster as she takes part during a sit-in protest.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 10 October 2017


 A woman holds a photograph of Manzoor khan, a Kashmiri missing person during a sit-in protest in Srinagar.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 10 October 2017


A Shia Muslim boy looks on as Kashmiri Shiite mourners beat their chests during a mourning procession marking the day of Ashura in Srinagar.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 1 October 2017


A Kashmiri Shiite child poses for a Picture as he takes part during a Muharram procession in Srinagar.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 1 October 2017
  
 

Police foiled Muharram procession on Friday and detained scores of Shia mourners to mark the 8th day of the holy month of Muharram, in Sgr.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 29 September 2017


Police foiled Muharram procession on Friday and detained scores of Shia mourners to mark the 8th day of the holy month of Muharram, in Sgr.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 29 September 2017


Police foiled Muharram procession on Friday and detained scores of Shia mourners to mark the 8th day of the holy month of Muharram, in Sgr.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 29 September 2017

 

Police foiled Muharram procession on Friday and detained scores of Shia mourners to mark the 8th day of the holy month of Muharram, in Sgr.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 29 September 2017


 Dussehra celebrated in Srinagar: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 30 September 2017

 
  
Dussehra celebrated in Srinagar: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 30 September 2017
 

Dussehra celebrated in Srinagar: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 30 September 2017

 

 Dussehra celebrated in Srinagar: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 30 September 2017


A boy runs on a deserted Street as Paramilitary soldiers stand guard during restrictions in Srinagar to prevent Muharram Procession.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 29 September 2017


Kashmiri shia mourners hold placards against the killing Rohingya Muslims in Burma, during an Ashura procession in Srinagar.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 1 October 2017


Kashmiri shia mourners hold placards against the killing Rohingya Muslims in Burma, during an Ashura procession in Srinagar.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 1 October 2017
 

A street dog rests near the barbed wire during restrictions in Srinagar over the killing of Top LeT Commander Abu Ismail.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 15 September 2017



Kashmiri children look towards a Paramilitary man as he stands guard during restrictions in Srinagar.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 8 September 2017


Kashmiri men row their Shikaras on the Dal lake in Srinagar.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 12 September 2017

 
A Kashmiri fisherman prepares to cast his net into the Dal lake in Srinagar.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 22 September 2017
 

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 9 September 2017

COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - OCTOBER 03: Makeshift shelters are seen at the sprawling Balukali Rohingya refuge camp on October 3, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. More than half a million Rohingya refugees have flooded into Bangladesh to flee an offensive by Myanmar's military that the United Nations has called 'a textbook example of ethnic cleansing'. The refugee population is expected to swell further, with thousands more Rohingya Muslims said to be making the perilous journey on foot toward the border, or paying smugglers to take them across by water in wooden boats. Hundreds are known to have died trying to escape, and survivors arrive with horrifying accounts of villages burned, women raped, and scores killed in the 'clearance operations' by Myanmar's army and Buddhist mobs that were sparked by militant attacks on security posts in Rakhine state on August 25, 2017. What the Rohingya refugees flee to is a different kind of suffering in sprawling makeshift camps rife with fears of malnutrition, cholera, and other diseases. Aid organizations are struggling to keep pace with the scale of need and the staggering number of them - an estimated 60 percent - who are children arriving alone. Bangladesh, whose acceptance of the refugees has been praised by humanitarian officials for saving lives, has urged the creation of an internationally-recognized 'safe zone' where refugees can return, though Rohingya Muslims have long been persecuted in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar. World leaders are still debating how to confront the country and its de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who championed democracy, but now appears unable or unwilling to stop the army's brutal crackdown.

Makeshift shelters are seen at the sprawling Balukali Rohingya refuge camp on October 3, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. More than half a million Rohingya refugees have flooded into Bangladesh to flee an offensive by Myanmar's military that the United Nations has called 'a textbook example of ethnic cleansing'. The refugee population is expected to swell further, with thousands more Rohingya Muslims said to be making the perilous journey on foot toward the border, or paying smugglers to take them across by water in wooden boats. Hundreds are known to have died trying to escape, and survivors arrive with horrifying accounts of villages burned, women raped, and scores killed in the 'clearance operations' by Myanmar's army and Buddhist mobs that were sparked by militant attacks on security posts in Rakhine state on August 25, 2017. What the Rohingya refugees flee to is a different kind of suffering in sprawling makeshift camps rife with fears of malnutrition, cholera, and other diseases. Aid organizations are struggling to keep pace with the scale of need and the staggering number of them - an estimated 60 percent - who are children arriving alone. Bangladesh, whose acceptance of the refugees has been praised by humanitarian officials for saving lives, has urged the creation of an internationally-recognized 'safe zone' where refugees can return, though Rohingya Muslims have long been persecuted in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar. World leaders are still debating how to confront the country and its de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who championed democracy, but now appears unable or unwilling to stop the army's brutal crackdown.: photo by Kevin Frayer / Getty Images, 3 October 2017

COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - SEPTEMBER 20: A Rohingya refugee boy desperate for aid cries as he climbs on a truck distributing aid for a local NGO near the Balukali refugee camp on September 20, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. More than half a million Rohingya refugees have flooded into Bangladesh to flee an offensive by Myanmar's military that the United Nations has called 'a textbook example of ethnic cleansing'. The refugee population is expected to swell further, with thousands more Rohingya Muslims said to be making the perilous journey on foot toward the border, or paying smugglers to take them across by water in wooden boats. Hundreds are known to have died trying to escape, and survivors arrive with horrifying accounts of villages burned, women raped, and scores killed in the 'clearance operations' by Myanmar's army and Buddhist mobs that were sparked by militant attacks on security posts in Rakhine state on August 25, 2017. What the Rohingya refugees flee to is a different kind of suffering in sprawling makeshift camps rife with fears of malnutrition, cholera, and other diseases. Aid organizations are struggling to keep pace with the scale of need and the staggering number of them - an estimated 60 percent - who are children arriving alone. Bangladesh, whose acceptance of the refugees has been praised by humanitarian officials for saving lives, has urged the creation of an internationally-recognized 'safe zone' where refugees can return, though Rohingya Muslims have long been persecuted in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar. World leaders are still debating how to confront the country and its de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who championed democracy, but now appears unable or unwilling to stop the army's brutal crackdown.

 A Rohingya refugee boy desperate for aid cries as he climbs on a truck distributing aid for a local NGO near the Balukali refugee camp on September 20, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.: photo by Kevin Frayer / Getty Images, 20 September 2017

  COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - SEPTEMBER 19: A Rohingya refugee girl wears a plastic bag as she walks in the monsoon rains at the Palongkali refugee camp on September 19, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. More than half a million Rohingya refugees have flooded into Bangladesh to flee an offensive by Myanmar's military that the United Nations has called 'a textbook example of ethnic cleansing'. The refugee population is expected to swell further, with thousands more Rohingya Muslims said to be making the perilous journey on foot toward the border, or paying smugglers to take them across by water in wooden boats. Hundreds are known to have died trying to escape, and survivors arrive with horrifying accounts of villages burned, women raped, and scores killed in the 'clearance operations' by Myanmar's army and Buddhist mobs that were sparked by militant attacks on security posts in Rakhine state on August 25, 2017. What the Rohingya refugees flee to is a different kind of suffering in sprawling makeshift camps rife with fears of malnutrition, cholera, and other diseases. Aid organizations are struggling to keep pace with the scale of need and the staggering number of them - an estimated 60 percent - who are children arriving alone. Bangladesh, whose acceptance of the refugees has been praised by humanitarian officials for saving lives, has urged the creation of an internationally-recognized 'safe zone' where refugees can return, though Rohingya Muslims have long been persecuted in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar. World leaders are still debating how to confront the country and its de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who championed democracy, but now appears unable or unwilling to stop the army's brutal crackdown.

A Rohingya refugee girl wears a plastic bag as she walks in the monsoon rains at the Palongkali refugee camp on September 19, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.: photo by Kevin Frayer / Getty Images, 19 September 2017


Thousands more Rohingya refugees fled to Bangladesh. One man at the Palong Khali camp told us 'soon all Rohingya will be gone' from Myanmar.: image via Janis Mackey Frayer @janisfrayer, 10 October 2017
 

This is the scene tonight with thousands of Rohingyas fleeing Myanmar for Bangladesh. They emerge from the darkness and keep coming.: image via Janis Mackey Frayer @janisfrayer, 9 October 2017
 

In Shah Purir Dwip, #Bangladesh: Funeral rites for Rohingyas killed when their boat capsized in the Naf river. Several people still missing.: image via Janis Mackey Frayer @janisfrayer, 9 October 2017

COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - SEPTEMBER 29: An Islamic cleric leads prayers for 16 Rohingya refugees who dies when their boat capsized while fleeing Myanmar during their funeral on September 29, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. More than half a million Rohingya refugees have flooded into Bangladesh to flee an offensive by Myanmar's military that the United Nations has called 'a textbook example of ethnic cleansing'. The refugee population is expected to swell further, with thousands more Rohingya Muslims said to be making the perilous journey on foot toward the border, or paying smugglers to take them across by water in wooden boats. Hundreds are known to have died trying to escape, and survivors arrive with horrifying accounts of villages burned, women raped, and scores killed in the 'clearance operations' by Myanmar's army and Buddhist mobs that were sparked by militant attacks on security posts in Rakhine state on August 25, 2017. What the Rohingya refugees flee to is a different kind of suffering in sprawling makeshift camps rife with fears of malnutrition, cholera, and other diseases. Aid organizations are struggling to keep pace with the scale of need and the staggering number of them - an estimated 60 percent - who are children arriving alone. Bangladesh, whose acceptance of the refugees has been praised by humanitarian officials for saving lives, has urged the creation of an internationally-recognized 'safe zone' where refugees can return, though Rohingya Muslims have long been persecuted in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar. World leaders are still debating how to confront the country and its de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who championed democracy, but now appears unable or unwilling to stop the army's brutal crackdown.

An Islamic cleric leads prayers for 16 Rohingya refugees who dies when their boat capsized while fleeing Myanmar during their funeral on September 29, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.: photo by Kevin Frayer / Getty Images, 29 September 2017

COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - SEPTEMBER 20: Rohingya refugees desperate for aid crowd as food is distributed by a local NGO near the Balukali refugee camp on September 20, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. More than half a million Rohingya refugees have flooded into Bangladesh to flee an offensive by Myanmar's military that the United Nations has called 'a textbook example of ethnic cleansing'. The refugee population is expected to swell further, with thousands more Rohingya Muslims said to be making the perilous journey on foot toward the border, or paying smugglers to take them across by water in wooden boats. Hundreds are known to have died trying to escape, and survivors arrive with horrifying accounts of villages burned, women raped, and scores killed in the 'clearance operations' by Myanmar's army and Buddhist mobs that were sparked by militant attacks on security posts in Rakhine state on August 25, 2017. What the Rohingya refugees flee to is a different kind of suffering in sprawling makeshift camps rife with fears of malnutrition, cholera, and other diseases. Aid organizations are struggling to keep pace with the scale of need and the staggering number of them - an estimated 60 percent - who are children arriving alone. Bangladesh, whose acceptance of the refugees has been praised by humanitarian officials for saving lives, has urged the creation of an internationally-recognized 'safe zone' where refugees can return, though Rohingya Muslims have long been persecuted in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar. World leaders are still debating how to confront the country and its de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who championed democracy, but now appears unable or unwilling to stop the army's brutal crackdown.

 Rohingya refugees desperate for aid crowd as food is distributed by a local NGO near the Balukali refugee camp on September 20, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.: photo by Kevin Frayer / Getty Images, 20 September 2017

COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - SEPTEMBER 22: An elderly Rohingya refugees woman sits outside her shelter in the sprawling Balukali refugee camp on September 22, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. More than half a million Rohingya refugees have flooded into Bangladesh to flee an offensive by Myanmar's military that the United Nations has called 'a textbook example of ethnic cleansing'. The refugee population is expected to swell further, with thousands more Rohingya Muslims said to be making the perilous journey on foot toward the border, or paying smugglers to take them across by water in wooden boats. Hundreds are known to have died trying to escape, and survivors arrive with horrifying accounts of villages burned, women raped, and scores killed in the 'clearance operations' by Myanmar's army and Buddhist mobs that were sparked by militant attacks on security posts in Rakhine state on August 25, 2017. What the Rohingya refugees flee to is a different kind of suffering in sprawling makeshift camps rife with fears of malnutrition, cholera, and other diseases. Aid organizations are struggling to keep pace with the scale of need and the staggering number of them - an estimated 60 percent - who are children arriving alone. Bangladesh, whose acceptance of the refugees has been praised by humanitarian officials for saving lives, has urged the creation of an internationally-recognized 'safe zone' where refugees can return, though Rohingya Muslims have long been persecuted in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar. World leaders are still debating how to confront the country and its de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who championed democracy, but now appears unable or unwilling to stop the army's brutal crackdown.

An elderly Rohingya refugees woman sits outside her shelter in the sprawling Balukali refugee camp on September 22, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.: photo by Kevin Frayer / Getty Images, 22 September 2017

  COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - SEPTEMBER 27: A Rohingya refugee woman holds her child as she stands outside her shelter at the sprawling Balukali refugee camp on September 27, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. More than half a million Rohingya refugees have flooded into Bangladesh to flee an offensive by Myanmar's military that the United Nations has called 'a textbook example of ethnic cleansing'. The refugee population is expected to swell further, with thousands more Rohingya Muslims said to be making the perilous journey on foot toward the border, or paying smugglers to take them across by water in wooden boats. Hundreds are known to have died trying to escape, and survivors arrive with horrifying accounts of villages burned, women raped, and scores killed in the 'clearance operations' by Myanmar's army and Buddhist mobs that were sparked by militant attacks on security posts in Rakhine state on August 25, 2017. What the Rohingya refugees flee to is a different kind of suffering in sprawling makeshift camps rife with fears of malnutrition, cholera, and other diseases. Aid organizations are struggling to keep pace with the scale of need and the staggering number of them - an estimated 60 percent - who are children arriving alone. Bangladesh, whose acceptance of the refugees has been praised by humanitarian officials for saving lives, has urged the creation of an internationally-recognized 'safe zone' where refugees can return, though Rohingya Muslims have long been persecuted in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar. World leaders are still debating how to confront the country and its de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who championed democracy, but now appears unable or unwilling to stop the army's brutal crackdown.
 
A Rohingya refugee woman holds her child as she stands outside her shelter at the sprawling Balukali refugee camp on September 27, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.: photo by Kevin Frayer / Getty Images, 27 September 2017

 COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - OCTOBER 01: A Rohingya refugee woman is helped from a boat as she arrives exhausted on the Bangladesh side of the Naf River at Shah Porir Dwip after fleeing her village in Myanmar, on October 1, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. More than half a million Rohingya refugees have flooded into Bangladesh to flee an offensive by Myanmar's military that the United Nations has called 'a textbook example of ethnic cleansing'. The refugee population is expected to swell further, with thousands more Rohingya Muslims said to be making the perilous journey on foot toward the border, or paying smugglers to take them across by water in wooden boats. Hundreds are known to have died trying to escape, and survivors arrive with horrifying accounts of villages burned, women raped, and scores killed in the 'clearance operations' by Myanmar's army and Buddhist mobs that were sparked by militant attacks on security posts in Rakhine state on August 25, 2017. What the Rohingya refugees flee to is a different kind of suffering in sprawling makeshift camps rife with fears of malnutrition, cholera, and other diseases. Aid organizations are struggling to keep pace with the scale of need and the staggering number of them - an estimated 60 percent - who are children arriving alone. Bangladesh, whose acceptance of the refugees has been praised by humanitarian officials for saving lives, has urged the creation of an internationally-recognized 'safe zone' where refugees can return, though Rohingya Muslims have long been persecuted in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar. World leaders are still debating how to confront the country and its de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who championed democracy, but now appears unable or unwilling to stop the army's brutal crackdown. 

A Rohingya refugee woman is helped from a boat as she arrives exhausted on the Bangladesh side of the Naf River at Shah Porir Dwip after fleeing her village in Myanmar, on October 1, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.: photo by Kevin Frayer / Getty Images, 1 October 2017

COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - OCTOBER 01: A Rohingya refugee family carry their belongings as they walk on the Bangladesh side of the Naf River after arriving by boat from Myanmar at Shah Porir Dwip on October 1, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. More than half a million Rohingya refugees have flooded into Bangladesh to flee an offensive by Myanmar's military that the United Nations has called 'a textbook example of ethnic cleansing'. The refugee population is expected to swell further, with thousands more Rohingya Muslims said to be making the perilous journey on foot toward the border, or paying smugglers to take them across by water in wooden boats. Hundreds are known to have died trying to escape, and survivors arrive with horrifying accounts of villages burned, women raped, and scores killed in the 'clearance operations' by Myanmar's army and Buddhist mobs that were sparked by militant attacks on security posts in Rakhine state on August 25, 2017. What the Rohingya refugees flee to is a different kind of suffering in sprawling makeshift camps rife with fears of malnutrition, cholera, and other diseases. Aid organizations are struggling to keep pace with the scale of need and the staggering number of them - an estimated 60 percent - who are children arriving alone. Bangladesh, whose acceptance of the refugees has been praised by humanitarian officials for saving lives, has urged the creation of an internationally-recognized 'safe zone' where refugees can return, though Rohingya Muslims have long been persecuted in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar. World leaders are still debating how to confront the country and its de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who championed democracy, but now appears unable or unwilling to stop the army's brutal crackdown.

 A Rohingya refugee family carry their belongings as they walk on the Bangladesh side of the Naf River after arriving by boat from Myanmar at Shah Porir Dwip on October 1, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.: photo by Kevin Frayer / Getty Images, 1 October 2017

COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - SEPTEMBER 18: A Rohingya refugee boy cries as he fights his way in the crowd to get food aid from a local NGO at the Balukali refugee camp on September 18, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. More than half a million Rohingya refugees have flooded into Bangladesh to flee an offensive by Myanmar's military that the United Nations has called 'a textbook example of ethnic cleansing'. The refugee population is expected to swell further, with thousands more Rohingya Muslims said to be making the perilous journey on foot toward the border, or paying smugglers to take them across by water in wooden boats. Hundreds are known to have died trying to escape, and survivors arrive with horrifying accounts of villages burned, women raped, and scores killed in the 'clearance operations' by Myanmar's army and Buddhist mobs that were sparked by militant attacks on security posts in Rakhine state on August 25, 2017. What the Rohingya refugees flee to is a different kind of suffering in sprawling makeshift camps rife with fears of malnutrition, cholera, and other diseases. Aid organizations are struggling to keep pace with the scale of need and the staggering number of them - an estimated 60 percent - who are children arriving alone. Bangladesh, whose acceptance of the refugees has been praised by humanitarian officials for saving lives, has urged the creation of an internationally-recognized 'safe zone' where refugees can return, though Rohingya Muslims have long been persecuted in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar. World leaders are still debating how to confront the country and its de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who championed democracy, but now appears unable or unwilling to stop the army's brutal crackdown.

A Rohingya refugee boy cries as he fights his way in the crowd to get food aid from a local NGO at the Balukali refugee camp on September 18, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.: photo by Kevin Frayer / Getty Images, 18 September 2017

 COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - SEPTEMBER 27: Malnourished and suffering from diarrhea, two Rohingya refugee children cry on the floor of a makeshift shelter at the Balukali refugee camp on September 27, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. More than half a million Rohingya refugees have flooded into Bangladesh to flee an offensive by Myanmar's military that the United Nations has called 'a textbook example of ethnic cleansing'. The refugee population is expected to swell further, with thousands more Rohingya Muslims said to be making the perilous journey on foot toward the border, or paying smugglers to take them across by water in wooden boats. Hundreds are known to have died trying to escape, and survivors arrive with horrifying accounts of villages burned, women raped, and scores killed in the 'clearance operations' by Myanmar's army and Buddhist mobs that were sparked by militant attacks on security posts in Rakhine state on August 25, 2017. What the Rohingya refugees flee to is a different kind of suffering in sprawling makeshift camps rife with fears of malnutrition, cholera, and other diseases. Aid organizations are struggling to keep pace with the scale of need and the staggering number of them - an estimated 60 percent - who are children arriving alone. Bangladesh, whose acceptance of the refugees has been praised by humanitarian officials for saving lives, has urged the creation of an internationally-recognized 'safe zone' where refugees can return, though Rohingya Muslims have long been persecuted in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar. World leaders are still debating how to confront the country and its de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who championed democracy, but now appears unable or unwilling to stop the army's brutal crackdown.

Malnourished and suffering from diarrhea, two Rohingya refugee children cry on the floor of a makeshift shelter at the Balukali refugee camp on September 27, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.: photo by Kevin Frayer / Getty Images, 27 September 2017

COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - SEPTEMBER 28: Rohingya refugees carry their belongings as they walk through water on the Bangladesh side of the Naf River after fleeing their village in Myanmar, on September 28, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. More than half a million Rohingya refugees have flooded into Bangladesh to flee an offensive by Myanmar's military that the United Nations has called 'a textbook example of ethnic cleansing'. The refugee population is expected to swell further, with thousands more Rohingya Muslims said to be making the perilous journey on foot toward the border, or paying smugglers to take them across by water in wooden boats. Hundreds are known to have died trying to escape, and survivors arrive with horrifying accounts of villages burned, women raped, and scores killed in the 'clearance operations' by Myanmar's army and Buddhist mobs that were sparked by militant attacks on security posts in Rakhine state on August 25, 2017. What the Rohingya refugees flee to is a different kind of suffering in sprawling makeshift camps rife with fears of malnutrition, cholera, and other diseases. Aid organizations are struggling to keep pace with the scale of need and the staggering number of them - an estimated 60 percent - who are children arriving alone. Bangladesh, whose acceptance of the refugees has been praised by humanitarian officials for saving lives, has urged the creation of an internationally-recognized 'safe zone' where refugees can return, though Rohingya Muslims have long been persecuted in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar. World leaders are still debating how to confront the country and its de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who championed democracy, but now appears unable or unwilling to stop the army's brutal crackdown.

 Rohingya refugees carry their belongings as they walk through water on the Bangladesh side of the Naf River after fleeing their village in Myanmar, on September 28, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.: photo by Kevin Frayer / Getty Images, 28 September 2017

COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - SEPTEMBER 18: Rohingya refugees line up to get food aid from a local NGO after arriving from Myanmar at the Balukali refugee camp on September 18, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. More than half a million Rohingya refugees have flooded into Bangladesh to flee an offensive by Myanmar's military that the United Nations has called 'a textbook example of ethnic cleansing'. The refugee population is expected to swell further, with thousands more Rohingya Muslims said to be making the perilous journey on foot toward the border, or paying smugglers to take them across by water in wooden boats. Hundreds are known to have died trying to escape, and survivors arrive with horrifying accounts of villages burned, women raped, and scores killed in the 'clearance operations' by Myanmar's army and Buddhist mobs that were sparked by militant attacks on security posts in Rakhine state on August 25, 2017. What the Rohingya refugees flee to is a different kind of suffering in sprawling makeshift camps rife with fears of malnutrition, cholera, and other diseases. Aid organizations are struggling to keep pace with the scale of need and the staggering number of them - an estimated 60 percent - who are children arriving alone. Bangladesh, whose acceptance of the refugees has been praised by humanitarian officials for saving lives, has urged the creation of an internationally-recognized 'safe zone' where refugees can return, though Rohingya Muslims have long been persecuted in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar. World leaders are still debating how to confront the country and its de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who championed democracy, but now appears unable or unwilling to stop the army's brutal crackdown.

 Rohingya refugees line up to get food aid from a local NGO after arriving from Myanmar at the Balukali refugee camp on September 18, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.: photo by Kevin Frayer / Getty Images, 27 September 2017

COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - SEPTEMBER 22: A cleric touches the head of a Rohingya refugee woman as she asks for food as they rest in an Islamic school or madrassa after arriving by boat on the Bangladesh side of the Naf River at Shah Porir Dwip after fleeing their villages in Myanmar, on September 22, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. More than half a million Rohingya refugees have flooded into Bangladesh to flee an offensive by Myanmar's military that the United Nations has called 'a textbook example of ethnic cleansing'. The refugee population is expected to swell further, with thousands more Rohingya Muslims said to be making the perilous journey on foot toward the border, or paying smugglers to take them across by water in wooden boats. Hundreds are known to have died trying to escape, and survivors arrive with horrifying accounts of villages burned, women raped, and scores killed in the 'clearance operations' by Myanmar's army and Buddhist mobs that were sparked by militant attacks on security posts in Rakhine state on August 25, 2017. What the Rohingya refugees flee to is a different kind of suffering in sprawling makeshift camps rife with fears of malnutrition, cholera, and other diseases. Aid organizations are struggling to keep pace with the scale of need and the staggering number of them - an estimated 60 percent - who are children arriving alone. Bangladesh, whose acceptance of the refugees has been praised by humanitarian officials for saving lives, has urged the creation of an internationally-recognized 'safe zone' where refugees can return, though Rohingya Muslims have long been persecuted in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar. World leaders are still debating how to confront the country and its de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who championed democracy, but now appears unable or unwilling to stop the army's brutal crackdown.

 A cleric touches the head of a Rohingya refugee woman as she asks for food as they rest in an Islamic school or madrassa after arriving by boat on the Bangladesh side of the Naf River at Shah Porir Dwip after fleeing their villages in Myanmar, on September 22, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.: photo by Kevin Frayer / Getty Images, 22 September 2017

COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - SEPTEMBER 26: A Rohingya refugee family reacts as they disembark from a boat after arriving on the Bangladesh side of the Naf River at night from Myanmar on September 26, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. More than half a million Rohingya refugees have flooded into Bangladesh to flee an offensive by Myanmar's military that the United Nations has called 'a textbook example of ethnic cleansing'. The refugee population is expected to swell further, with thousands more Rohingya Muslims said to be making the perilous journey on foot toward the border, or paying smugglers to take them across by water in wooden boats. Hundreds are known to have died trying to escape, and survivors arrive with horrifying accounts of villages burned, women raped, and scores killed in the 'clearance operations' by Myanmar's army and Buddhist mobs that were sparked by militant attacks on security posts in Rakhine state on August 25, 2017. What the Rohingya refugees flee to is a different kind of suffering in sprawling makeshift camps rife with fears of malnutrition, cholera, and other diseases. Aid organizations are struggling to keep pace with the scale of need and the staggering number of them - an estimated 60 percent - who are children arriving alone. Bangladesh, whose acceptance of the refugees has been praised by humanitarian officials for saving lives, has urged the creation of an internationally-recognized 'safe zone' where refugees can return, though Rohingya Muslims have long been persecuted in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar. World leaders are still debating how to confront the country and its de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who championed democracy, but now appears unable or unwilling to stop the army's brutal crackdown.

 A Rohingya refugee family reacts as they disembark from a boat after arriving on the Bangladesh side of the Naf River at night from Myanmar on September 26, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.: photo by Kevin Frayer / Getty Images, 26 September 2017

Notting Hill, 1996 | by David Solomons

Notting Hll, 1996: photo by David Solomons, August 1996

camouflage | by angkul_sth

 camouflage: photo by angkul_sth, 10 October 2017

camouflage | by angkul_sth

 camouflage: photo by angkul_sth, 10 October 2017

camouflage | by angkul_sth

 camouflage: photo by angkul_sth, 10 October 2017

Nemesis | by Túlio Cerquize

 Nemesis [Rio de Janeiro]: photo by Túlio Cerquize, 4 October 2017
 

Inside the al-Hawza al-Ilmiyya schools, the 'heart of society' for Iraq's Shi'ites where clerics are trained: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 12 October 2017

Untitled | by kyleisdasai

 Untitled. Portland, Oregon..: photo by Kyle, sometime in 2014

Untitled | by kyleisdasai

 Untitled. Portland, Oregon..: photo by Kyle, sometime in 2014

Untitled | by kyleisdasai

 Untitled. Portland, Oregon..: photo by Kyle, sometime in 2014

© Spiros Soueref, Anono, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, 2017 Theworldthroughaphotograph.com | by Spiros Soueref

Anono, Abidjan, Ivory Coast: photo by Spiros Soueref, 20 August 2017

Untitled | by kyleisdasai

 Untitled. WIP.: photo by Kyle, 12 September 2017

Untitled | by kyleisdasai

 Untitled. WIP.: photo by Kyle, 12 September 2017

Untitled | by kyleisdasai

 Untitled. WIP.: photo by Kyle, 12 September 2017

© Spiros Soueref, Mexico, 2016 http://theworldthroughaphotograph.com | by Spiros Soueref

Mexico, 2016: photo by Spiros Soueref, 22 November 2016

Untitled | by kyleisdasai
  
Untitled. Pe Ell, Washington.: photo by Kyle, 22 June 2015

Untitled | by kyleisdasai

Untitled. Pe Ell, Washington.: photo by Kyle, 22 June 2015

Untitled | by kyleisdasai

Untitled. Pe Ell, Washington.: photo by Kyle, 22 June 2015

Mother's instructions. | by tetyanabunyak
  
Mother's instructions [Marrakech]: photo by Tetyana Bunyak, 13 February 2011

Mother's instructions. | by tetyanabunyak

 Mother's instructions [Marrakech]: photo by Tetyana Bunyak, 13 February 2011

Mother's instructions. | by tetyanabunyak
  
Mother's instructions [Marrakech]: photo by Tetyana Bunyak, 13 February 2011

* | by Sakulchai Sikitikul

Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 6 October 2017

* | by Sakulchai Sikitikul

Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 6 October 2017

* | by Sakulchai Sikitikul

Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 6 October 2017

About the gun. | by tetyanabunyak

 About the gun [L'viv, Ukraine]: photo by Tetyana Bunyak, 15 September 2015

About the gun. | by tetyanabunyak

 About the gun [L'viv, Ukraine]: photo by Tetyana Bunyak, 15 September 2015

About the gun. | by tetyanabunyak

 About the gun [L'viv, Ukraine]: photo by Tetyana Bunyak, 15 September 2015

Coruña by night - Rain is coming. | by Dirk Bontenbal

 Coruña by night -- Rain is coming: photo by Dirk Bontenbal, 1 October 2017

 Coruña by night - Rain is coming. | by Dirk Bontenbal

 Coruña by night -- Rain is coming: photo by Dirk Bontenbal, 1 October 2017

Coruña by night - Rain is coming. | by Dirk Bontenbal
  
Coruña by night -- Rain is coming: photo by Dirk Bontenbal, 1 October 2017

#17 | by Alexei Yuriev

#17: photo by Alexei Yuriev, 14 October 2017

#17 | by Alexei Yuriev

#17: photo by Alexei Yuriev, 14 October 2017

#17 | by Alexei Yuriev

#17: photo by Alexei Yuriev, 14 October 2017

© Spiros Soueref, Lalibela, Ethiopia, 2016 For more information: theworldthroughaphotograph.com | by Spiros Soueref

Lalibela, Ethiopia, 2016: photo by Spiros Soueref, 25 April 2016

Look up! | by tetyanabunyak

Look up! [L'viv, Ukraine]: photo by Tetyana Bunyak, 17 August 2017

Look up! | by tetyanabunyak

Look up! [L'viv, Ukraine]: photo by Tetyana Bunyak, 17 August 2017
 
Look up! | by tetyanabunyak

Look up! [L'viv, Ukraine]: photo by Tetyana Bunyak, 17 August 2017

 
That's not fall color, that's flame retardant near Calistoga, California. #CaliforniaWildfires #Calistoga #Calfires via @AP_Images: image via Eric Zerkel @EricZerkel, 13 October 2017 
 

Buena Vista Winery saved, as well as their photographic inhabitants. #SouthernLNU_Complex @NorthBayNews @CAL_FIRE: image via Kent Porter @kentphotos, 14 October 2017



Homes burned in continuation of windy conditions in the Sonoma Valley, Saturday morning off Castle Road. @NorthBayNews @CAL_FIRE: image via Kent Porter @kentphotos, 14 October 2017

 
Homes burned in continuation of windy conditions in the Sonoma Valley, Saturday morning off Castle Road. @NorthBayNews @CAL_FIRE: image via Kent Porter @kentphotos, 14 October 2017
 
 

\New evacuations in Sonoma and Santa Rosa Saturday @NorthBayNews @CAL_FIRE: image via Kent Porter @kentphotos, 14 October 2017

 

New evacuations in Sonoma and Santa Rosa Saturday @NorthBayNews @CAL_FIRE: image via Kent Porter @kentphotos, 14 October 2017
  
 

New evacuations in Sonoma and Santa Rosa Saturday @NorthBayNews @CAL_FIRE: image via Kent Porter @kentphotos, 14 October 2017
  
 

New evacuations in Sonoma and Santa Rosa Saturday @NorthBayNews @CAL_FIRE: image via Kent Porter @kentphotos, 14 October 2017

Several homes lost off Castle Road in east Sonoma this AM. @NorthBayNews @CAL_FIRE #SouthernLNU_Complex: image via Kent Porter @kentphotos, 14 October 2017


The new Wine Country fashion trend. #NorCalFires #napafires #winecountryfires: image via Derek Moore @deadlinederek, 14 October 2017


 
Homes burned in continuation of windy conditions in the Sonoma Valley, Saturday morning off Castle Road. @NorthBayNews @CAL_FIRE: image via Kent Porter @kentphotos, 14 October 2017
 

Under a blood red sky. #napafires #winecountryfires #NorthBayFires: image via Derek Moore @deadlinederek, 14 October 2017

1 comment:

TC said...

A Shikara boat is a way cool thing to be given. This just actually happened to us. We are unworthy. Zainab Ramahi gets this post in partial return.