A short interview with Society for Threatened Peoples (STP)
Mohammed Rafique spent 17 years in Bangladeshi refugee camps. Nowadays he is a Project Coordinator of Schools Across Borders and a Council Member of The European Rohingya Council (ERC). Ilaria Cimino spoke with him about his life and his important work on behalf of the Rohingya.
- Where are you from?
I am from Burma/Myanmar. I was born in 1982 in Keramoitta Fara, Akyab (Sittwe) Arakan State.
- When did you leave your homeland?
It was 1992 and I was ten years old. I left with my parents for Bangladesh.