Entertainment Desk :
UN refugee agency, UNHCR and the Liberation War Museum of Bangladesh have jointly organised
a photographic exhibition titled
We are Rohingya, which was inaugurated on Monday. The exhibition is opened at 11:00am in the temporary exhibition hall of the Liberation War Museum in Dhaka,
said a press release.
On the occasion of World Refugee Day, this photographic exhibition presents the work of 10 Rohingyas who photographed people living in the refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar. Curated by David Palazon and Amena Khatun from the Liberation War Museum, the display includes 50 photographs that capture the culture, identity, hopes and dreams of people who escaped from violence and persecution in Myanmar and found refuge in Bangladesh. The exhibition also includes 11 photographs from the Liberation War Museum archives that capture the lives and stories of Bangladeshi nationals, who in 1971 were forced to flee and lived as refugees, during the Liberation War.
This exhibition presents how lived memory of millions of Bangladeshis uprooted during the Liberation War has inspired the generosity and protection the country is now extending to the persecuted Rohingya from neighbouring Myanmar, said the UNHCR.
