ENTRY DESCRIPTION
The most atrocious conditions you can imagine, when living under a military tyranny
ruling the country, as in Burma –a country closed to foreign journalists– can be seen at
Kutupalong refugee camp. We are talking about the Burmese group most crushed, the
victims of the worst injustice, about all the suffering inhabitants of that beautiful and
sinister country. They are named the Rohingyas and the fact that they consider worth
the effort and the risk to flee to Kutupalong says it all. First, because Bangladesh is not
exactly El Dorado. It is such a densely populated country and so poor, that were UK to
have similar economic conditions, it should have a population of 550 million and an
average income not half of which a english has today –during the worst recession in
living memory– but the twentieth part. Secondly, because Kutupalong camp is a kind of
limbo of homelessness, particularly for the major segment of its inhabitants, who for
political reasons difficult to rationalize– do not have the support of the United Nations
High Commission for Refugees. People here exist but do not live. They breathe, sleep,
eat but they lack the concept of a better future and the human dignity that the concept
involves.

AUTHOR
Freelance Photographer. Humanist. He develops humanitarian essays where the main characters are integrated in societies that borders and sets upon any reason or human rights.

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