I have spent years documenting refugees and their children. In recent years I have been interviewing and photographing the tragedies of the families escaping for their lives to Greece from the Middle East as well as the desperate Rohingya and Bihari refugees escaping to Bangladesh from border countries.
To closely experience their lives as well as to help and speak with the families. I spent nights awake in Lesbos Greece waiting for dilapidated and overloaded boats to arrive from Turkey. Sometimes the boats never made it. I walked hundreds of kilometers along with the refugees while they were trying to cross the border out of Greece. In between, I was in their camps, shelters and anywhere they were, trying to discover their pain, suffering, and anguish that refugees must face.
My experiences were eye-opening, tragic, sad, terrifying, and oftentimes shocking.
You can do your part by SHARING THIS post about millions of refugees who need support.
Plight of Rohingya Refugees
More than 24,000 Rohingya were killed by the Myanmar military and local Buddhists. It also estimated that at least 18,000 Rohingya Muslim women and girls were raped, 36,000 Rohingya were thrown into fire.
The Refugee Crisis in Greece
As of December 7, 2015, more than 911,000 refugees and migrants had arrived on European shores since the year began and some 3,550 lives had been lost during the journey. Over 75 per cent of those arriving in Europe had fled conflict and persecution in Syria, Afghanistan or Iraq.
The civil war in Syria has led to one of the worst humanitarian crises of our lifetime.
The neglected ‘Bihari’ community in Bangladesh
While the international community is focused on the plight of Rohingya refugees, not many in the world are aware of the ordeal of Bihari Muslims who migrated from India in 1947.
This is not just a story of poverty and despair. This is the story of a community of over one hundred sixty thousand stateless Biharis who have lived like animals for the last 40 years.
——————-
GMB Akash
Photojournalist and Profile Photographer at Panos Pictures, London
Founder of GMB Akash Institute of Photography, Dhaka
TEDxHyderabad:https://youtu.be/sXbmBCzgy8A
TEDxYouth:https://youtu.be/rLG7sPs6MkU
Website: www.gmb-akash.com
Photo Agency: www.panos.co.uk
Photography Workshop: www.gmbakashworkshop.com
Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/gmbakash
Instagram: www.instagram.com/gmbakash
Blog: www.gmbakash.wordpress.com
Twitter:www.twitter.com/GmbAkash
GMB AKASH 
Reblogged this on Ulta Palta Blogs.
LikeLike
Why should muslims from other continents and cultures go to Europe? All the best to all refugees in the world, and especially to Christian refugees, who are the most persecuted in the world today. Muslim refugees should go to countries in their neighbourhood if they cannot stay and improve and build their own countries. Why not Saudi Arabia, who have the same religion, similar culture, are exceedingly rich and have taken zero refugees up till now, or the other countries in that part of the world? Or the other countries in that region who are also extremely rich, have bombed other countries, and have zero refugees.
Greece and Europe have nothing to do with these miseries, created by religion, culture, bad traditions and war between muslims.
LikeLike