From the very beginning of that ghastly day, Anas Mia, 10-year-old Rohingya child, felt that an ominous incident may take place. He also shared his fear and warned his mother Mobareka and father Namiuddin that the army could attack their village. Though his mother shared his worries, his father did not take his anxiety seriously. Like every other day, his father went to work after taking breakfast. Anas Mia also went with him. But the child still did not know that a tragic situation was waiting for him. In that afternoon, he was returning home with his father after the end of the works. He was walking behind his father. And when his father entered their house, Myanmar Army men shot dead his father and then his mother. In front of his eyes, his parents’ dead bodies fell on the ground. He was shot in the nose and arm and lost his consciousness. After regaining his consciousness he fled to Bangladesh and took shelter in Kutupalong Refugee Camp, Ukhia. There he shared his tragic life story with the reporter.    

Rohingya Child Anas Mia told the reporter, ‘That day we worked till afternoon in the field. The sun had tilted towards the western sky. Hunger in the stomach was indicating that we should return home. We started for home. I was walking behind my father. When we reached near our home, we heard the sound of screaming of the people. I saw that military and Maghs had entered the village and had started to shot.  At the same time, they were setting fire into the houses. In front of my eyes, my parents were shot dead.  I was shot in my nose, arm, and leg and lost my consciousness. After regaining my consciousness, I ran away from there with my three siblings. But I failed to save them. They also died in the firing by Myanmar Army.’

Anas Mia had lost his parents and siblings in the Myanmar Army’s firing; luckily, after coming to Kutupalong Refugee Camp, he has found back his grandparents. They came in this camp earlier. Now Anas Mia is living with them. Although his condition has improved because of the treatment in the MSF Hospital of the camp, wound in his nose hasn’t dried enough.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visited Rohingyas in the Kutupalong Camp on September 12, 2017. At that time, Anas spoke to the Prime Minister. Sheikh Hasina shared a moment of solemn empathy another orphan like her, Anas mia. Anas became emotionally flooded when PM was fondling on his head. He said to the reporter, ‘When the Bangladeshi Prime Minister put her hand on my head and fondled, the face of my mother appears in front of my eyes.’ When he was saying these words, tears started to fall down from his eyes. 

Not only Anas Mia, but around one and a half lakh orphans like him are now living in the Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar. Roads of the camp are full of Rohingya refugees. Sounds of crying of the children float in the air of the camps.  All of the refugees share the common memory of past, the memory of losing friends and family. In the massacre by Myanmar army, some of them have lost their husband or wife; some have lost children, and some have lost every member of the family.

These oppressed, tortured Rohingya refugees still dream to go back to their own homestead.