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Voice of America- Rohingya Report
LENGTH: 54:20 Minutes (EXCLUDING 4 BREAKS)
WRITER: A. Rasco PRODUCER: A. Rasco
DRAFT: FINAL
DATE: 10/10/2018
V/O TALENT: Greta Van Susteren (with various others for the open)
FADE IN:
1. Dramatic, PERCUSSIVE Music in
NARRATOR VO:
IT’S THE UNTHINKABLE…
NEARLY 1 MILLION ROHINGYA REFUGEES HAVE BEEN DRIVEN OUT OF THEIR HOMES AND VILLAGES IN MYANMAR INTO NEIGHBORING BANGLADESH. IT IS BY FAR ONE OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST HUMANITARIAN CRISES TODAY.
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2. Fast Paced Headline, Maps, Still photos, etc.
FILE PICS, HISTORICAL PICS
VINTAGE MAP, BORDERS OUTLINED,
POSSIBLE TIMELINE GRAPHIC, WITH DATES
FILE BROLL OF MYANMAR
FILE FOOTAGE CONTINUES,
SHOT OF TEXT ON DOCUMENTS
POPE FRANCIS IN MYANMAR (VOA FILE)
OBAMA IN MYANMAR (VOA FILE)
MYANMAR ROHINGYA FOOTAGE (VOA FILE)
VOA FILE FOOTAGE
ROYCE ON CAMERA
SHOTS OF TEXT FROM HEADLINES Music transition, to dramatic, tense, driving music
TITLE: FROM VOICE OF AMERICA
FEMALE VO 1 (SLIGHTLY DISTORTED, WITH FX); DRY, QUICK
THE ROHINGYA ARE DESCENDANTS OF THE ANCIENT SOUTHEAST ASIAN KINGDOM OF ARAKAN.
ITS BORDERS FACED THE BAY OF BENGAL TO ITS WEST, THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT TO ITS NORTH, AND BURMA PROPER TO ITS EAST, ISOLATED BY THE ARAKAN MOUNTAINS AND ACCESSIBLE PRIMARILY BY SEA.
VOICE 2
IN THE 8TH CENTURY, MUSLIM TRADERS BROUGHT ISLAM TO ARAKAN, WHERE THE RELIGION SPREAD.
IN THE 18TH CENTURY, ARAKAN WAS CONQUERED BY THE NEIGHBORING BURMESE PEOPLE.
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UNTIL RECENTLY, THE DESCENDANTS OF THE ARAKAN, NOW KNOWN AS THE ROHINGYA – LIVED ISOLATED FROM THE MAJORITY BUDDHIST POPULATION IN WHAT IS NOW CALLED THE RHAKINE (RA-KINE) STATE OF MYANMAR.
FEMALE VO:
BUT MYANMAR DENIED ROHINGYA THE RIGHT TO CITIZENSHIP. AND THEIR BASIC RIGHTS TO STUDY, WORK, OR ACCESS HEALTH SERVICES WERE SEVERLY RESTRICTED. (:50)
BEGINNING IN 2012, WESTERN LEADERS STARTED TO TAKE NOTICE.
President Obama SOT: In Rhakine state, we see the danger of continued tensions there.
GVS VO:
THEN, IN AUGUST, 2017, TENSIONS BETWEEN THE ROHINGYA AND BURMESE BOILED OVER.
ROHINGYA REBELS ATTACKED MYANMAR SECURITY FORCES. THE MILITARY QUICKLY COUNTERATTACKED. (:12)
VOA Reporter VO: The violence against civilians has forced more than half a million people to flee for their lives.
Congressman Ed Royce SOT: Hundreds have been killed, at least 200 villages have been burned to the ground.
SOT OTHER CONGRESSMAN: The word is genocide.
Nikki Haley SOT: We must shine a spotlight on these accounts of ethnic cleansing.
THIS IS THE STORY BEHIND THE CATATROPHIC HUMANITARIAN CRISIS AFFECTING SOUTHEAST ASIA. AND THE STORY OF THE PEOPLE TRYING TO HELP THE ROHINGYA.
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3. GVS on camera
(starting TC 2:08)
Cutaways to B camera, VOA File footage Look around me. This river, it’s part of the border between the nation of Bangladesh and the nation of Myanmar. It’s a short distance from the Rohingya refugee camps, and this is one of the border locations where many desperate Rohingya refugees, under the most unthinkable conditions, crossed this river, fleeing for their lives. There are around 1 million Rohingyas here in Bangladesh. They’re living in very tough conditions with very uncertain futures. Not every Rohingya was able to escape to Bangladesh. Many, numbers unknown, were murdered, slaughtered. The United Nations has identified these acts as “ethnic cleansing.” You’ve heard the phrase, “Never again.” But those words ring hollow here. It has happened again. To the Rohingyas.
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4. Timelapse footage Tense, drone music in (FC_CHAP469_1_Exhausted_Main_Track_Collins_Phillips_1015712.wav)
5. “Kasim” English, Rohingya
They come, one of the groups to our village. They first came to our markets. And they looted all of the expensive things. And then they set fire.
6. Broll Shot of burning home (VOA FILE)
7. Mohib Bullah, Rohingya Community Leader
(Cutaways to GVS) MB: Also they were coming to our village. And shooting everywhere. Just firing and shooting like this. On fire. No meet. No discuss. No question. Just shooting.
GVS VO:
WHEN MOHIB BULLAH’S VILLAGE WAS ATTACKED, HE TRAVELED FOR 8 DAYS TO REACH SAFETY. (:06)
4:07
8. Mohib Bullah
Broll Cutaways to footage of refugee flight GVS: I have heard that there were killings, shootings. Killings with machetes. Rapes of women.
MB: Yes.
GVS: Do you know anyone who was killed by machete, shot, or raped?
MB: Yes. A lot of people we know.
9. Kasim and GVS Kasim: When they burned our villages and market, that time I saw with my own eyes.
GVS: Did you see anyone killed with your own eyes?
Kasim: Yes. One of the, one of my villagers also killed on the way.
GVS: Running and got shot?
Kasim: Yeah, yeah.
GVS VO:
KASIM WAS A SCHOOL TEACHER IN HIS HOME VILLAGE WHERE HE CAN TRACE HIS FAMILY HISTORY BACK AT LEAST FOUR GENERATIONS. (:09)
4:42
10. Kasim and GVS
Coverage in Kasim’s home caring for a baby. K: My family also, one of my brothers were killed by the Burmese government.
GVS: So you’re taking care of your brother’s child and your sister-in-law, your brother’s wife.
11. Kasim’s sister in law with baby NAT Break: Baby sounds in home
12. GVS and Kasim
Coverage of Kasim holding baby GVS: How, how you do you deal with this?
K: I love him very much. Now I am taking care of him. He’s my adopted child.
13. GVS and Mohib Bullah GVS: Why do you think the Myanmar military did this?
MB: The government is try to (make) the whole country to be Buddhist.
GVS: So this is a religious dispute-
MB: Religious. It is a religious thing. They’re trying to be… Buddhist country. All will be Buddhist.
GVS VO:
I HEARD SEVERAL STORIES LIKE THIS, CLAIMING THAT THE ATTACKS WERE RELIGIOUSLY MOTIVATED- BUDDHIST ON MUSLIM - AND CALCULATED TO DRIVE OUT THE ROHINGYA. NO GOVERNMENT CONFIRMS THAT STORY. BUT THE ROHINGYA HERE BELIEVE IT. (:15)
5:41
14. “Monuara” Rohingya Language
M: I had to leave my children in the midst of firing and chaos. What could I do?
GVS: So, so she was in her home when the military of Myanmar showed up. Is that right?
M: Yes, that’s right.
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GVS: What happened to the village?
M: The village was burned. As the houses set on fire, a lot of the people could not get out. Some were hacked to death, or their bodies were lit on fire. Little children were thrown away violently.
GVS: How did you get separated from your two children?
M: In Myanmar, our home was attacked suddenly by gunfire. That moment, I escaped through an open door, and I grabbed one of my children who was close to me. Soon I saw my whole house was on fire. I do not know what had happened to the others. There’s no way to know who was shot or who was butchered. I could not find out.
GVS: I just can’t even imagine how hard this is. I almost don’t know what to say to you. I’m at a loss for words.
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15. Monuara continues
Sound of children singing starts to fade in
M: My son was five. My daughter, seven.
GVS: What’s her name in case someone is watching-
M: Shahida
GVS: And what is your son’s name?
M: Mahmudul Hasan.
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16. Broll of children singing, Broll of the camp NAT BREAK: Muslim children singing in a temporary Mosque structure. (:15)
Music transitions to drone, strings
17. B-Roll of Kutupalong Camp 7:24
GVS VO
SO FOR NOW, THE NEW HOME FOR THE ROHINGYA IS IN NEIGHBORING BANGLADESH:
THE KUTUPALONG REFUGEE CAMP.
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18. Aerial Reveal of the Camp Music swells
19. Aerial shots continue
GVS with Rachel Gruenloh, Samaritan’s Purse
Coverage of “older, registered” camp
Piles of Bamboo
WHAT ONCE WAS LUSH FOREST, IS NOW A SPRAWLING SLUM THAT REACHES OUT FOR MILES. (:07)
I had no idea how big it was going to be. So seeing just how huge the camp was, just on and on and on with all of the people, that was, kind of my first impression, the huge scope of it. I mean I’d heard about it, you see the statistics, you see the numbers, but to be here in person and seeing how extensive it is, that’s something completely different.
(pause)
Once you get in, besides just looking at the physical stuff, looking at the people, the feel of the camp when I walk through it, there’s this sense that a lot of people are just kind of surviving. Not really living. Just getting by day to day.
AN INITIAL SETTLEMENT OF REFUGEES ALREADY EXISTED HERE, BUT AFTER THE VIOLENCE BEGAN IN AUGUST 2017, THE CAMP STARTED TO GROW BY ENORMOUS NUMBERS. (:12)
WHEN THEY ARRIVED, THE ROHINGYA HAD NO HOMES. NO SHELTERS. NO SOURCE OF HEAT FOR COOKING. BUT WHAT THE LAND HELD WAS TREES. AND ONE BY ONE, THEY WERE CUT DOWN. THE TREES THAT HELD THE HILLSIDES BECAME CAMPFIRES AND SHELTERS THAT NOW STRETCH TO THE HORIZON. (:23)
20. Camp Broll
21. Broll of GVS speaking with Caelin CAELIN BRIGGS IS AN AMERICAN WHO HAS WORKED IN FIVE COUNTRIES IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS. SHE’S NOW WITH WORLD VISION, A RELIEF AGENCY WHICH IS ACTIVE HERE. SHE’S SEEN THE GROWTH. (:13)
22. Caelin Briggs, World Vision
CB: When we had this massive population influx last August, we had to expand the area where those people were living. So what we’re in now is called the expansion camp. It’s basically a much larger camp that’s built around the original site.
GVS: Any idea what the population of the expanded camp is?
CB: Over 600,000.
GVS: Of the expanded camp, that would include the original camp too?
CB: That doesn’t include the original camp.
GVS: It does not?
CB: No. If you include the original camp and all of the little bits around it, we’re up to around 900,000 people. So this is the largest refugee camp in the world.
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23. Coverage of camps
Coverage of Rohingyas with cell phones
UNICEF language classes
Despondent refugees
Camp Broll BUT THEY ARE CUT OFF.
THEY CANNOT LEAVE THE CAMP.
OFFICIALLY THE BANGLADESH GOVERNMENT HAS EVEN PUT RESTRICTIONS ON THE SALE OF SIM CARDS TO REFUGEES FOR THEIR CELL PHONES, CITING “SECURITY PRECAUTIONS.”
FORMAL EDUCATION IS NOT ALLOWED. SOME ORGANIZATIONS SPONSOR LANGUAGE LESSONS FOR CHILDREN BUT NOT IN THE LOCAL TRADE LANGUAGE, BENGALI.
THOUGH THERE IS LITTLE TO DO, THERE ARE FEW SOURCES OF ENTERTAINMENT.
NO TELEVISION.
LIMITED INTERNET.
AND ONLY WEAK RADIO SIGNALS WITH LITTLE INFORMATION IN THE ROHINGYA LANGUAGE.
SINCE REFUGEES DON’T HAVE WORK PERMITS, THEY ARE OFFICIALLY NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE JOBS.
IT’S FERTILE GROUND FOR THE BREEDING OF EXTREMISTS AND TERRORISM.
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10:21
24. Caelin Briggs
CB: We often say in these types of emergencies that idleness is one of the biggest threats. When people have too much time, when they don’t have the opportunity to work or do things, that’s when we see risks go up in camps.
18. BRoll of children playing games
Refugees working
Computer Kiosk KIDS ARE KIDS, AND THEY TRY TO KEEP BUSY.
NAT Breaks of Marbles, children playing in dirt, soccer games
10:48
AND WHILE THE ROHINGYA MAY NOT BE ABLE TO FILL PROPER JOBS, IT DOESN’T STOP THEM FROM WORKING.
NAT Breaks of brick and mortar, shoveling, boy carries bricks, woman harvesting
YOU DO FIND SOME COMPUTERS IN USE HERE AND THERE, BUT I’M TOLD THAT THEIR USAGE ALSO REQUIRES PERMISSION FROM AUTHORITIES IN THE CAMPS. SO NO WORK. NO SCHOOLING. NO MOVEMENT. NOT MUCH OF A LIFE.
25. 11:13
Music fades in
NO ONE- NOT GOVERNMENTS, NOT RELIEF WORKERS, AND LEAST OF ALL THE ROHINGYA THEMSELVES- KNOWS HOW LONG THEY WILL BE HERE AND WHEN, OR IF, THEY WILL EVER BE ABLE TO RETURN HOME.
AND THERE’S MORE: ANOTHER PRESSING, POTENTIALLY DISASTROUS ENEMY HAS COME TO THE ROHINGYA. (:33)
WEATHER SFX IN
Music out
26. BREAK #1 11:39-11:44 BREAK #1 (Suggested 1 minute)
27. Greta on path, rain starts.
Rain Broll
Dramatic, piano music IN
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GVS: Here comes the rain.
Lady: Yeah, yeah, we can go there.
GVS: Can I get under your thing for a second?
28. GVS Stand-up in a rain downpour-
Broll of rain, people in rain This what the million people, the million Rohingyas in this refugee camp, are having to put up with. This is the monsoon season. This is a crisis on top of a crisis. It is raining like crazy. It’s not going to stop rain. This is no ordinary rain, this is a monsoon.
And what’s already happening is there are mudslides. But that’s not where it stops. I mean look- here’s a latrine , but the latrines are filthy. And what happens is, they make the water filthy. There’s water running all the way- you can see the water underneath me. It just doesn’t stop raining. And it’s a breeding ground for all sorts of diseases. You’ve got cholera, and so many other diseases that come when you have filthy water.
And that’s just the beginning. But how can anyone expect these people to get food to live, how can you expect their structures to stand up, and now their structures are literally going to wash down on to each other.
Bridges are washing away. This is what the spotlight needs to be put on, because these people are desperate. But it’s only going to get worse.
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30.
Maye Saephanh MTI/Food for the Hungry
13:07
GVS VO:
THE DANGER IS CLEAR TO RELIEF WORKERS LIKE MAYE SAEPHANH (SAY-pan) OF FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY AND MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL. (:06)
Essentially, their settlements are built on what appears to be sand dunes because they are deforested lands that have no way of protecting the population against the monsoon rains. And so it’s very likely that most of these settlements will get washed out as the rains increase and the storms become more intense.
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31. Shelley Thakral, World Food Program We identified something like 200,000 people are at risk from landslides with this heavy monsoon. It’s almost like a race against time.
GVS VO:
SHELLEY THAKRAL GAVE UP A CAREER AS A JOURNALIST TO WORK IN CRISIS ENVIRONMENTS JUST LIKE THIS ONE. (:08)
We’ve been trying to move families as fast as we can to flatter, safer land. So relocated to part of the camp which has been flattened but also so that safer shelter can also be built.
32. Rain footage
Rebecca Derry, Samaritan’s Purse GVS VO:
THE CONSTANT RAIN WOULD STRAIN A FIRST-WORLD INFRASTRUCTURE, LET ALONE A MAKESHIFT CAMP. THE WATER BUILDS, POOLS AND SEEPS INTO EVERYTHING AND SETS UP A POTENTIAL FOR DANGER TO THE VULNERABLE REFUGEES.(:13)
And as the rains continue, the toilets are overflowing into the wells. So many of the clean wells will become contaminated as the rainy season continues
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34. Rebecca Derry With that, we get major outbreaks. Infectious outbreaks like acute watery diarrhea, possibly cholera, dengue fever. There are quite a few outbreaks we are worried that might occur.
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35.
Shots of GVS walking through camp
Flags, signs of other NGOs
Camp map that shows divisions, flags that say “Camp 16” GVS VO
I WALKED THE CAMP WITH REBECCA DERRY, THE COUNTRY REPRESENTATIVE FOR SAMARITAN’S PURSE, A US- BASED CHRISTIAN RELIEF ORGANIZATION.
DOZENS OF AGENCIES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, INCLUDING THE UNITED STATES, HAVE SENT TEAMS TO THE CAMP TO HELP THE ROHINGYA. THEY’RE PROVIDING MEDICAL CARE, SHELTER MATERIALS, FOOD, AND DOZENS OF OTHER RELIEF SERVICES.
THE CAMP IS TOO LARGE AND THE NEED TOO GREAT FOR JUST ONE AGENCY TO HANDLE IT ALL.
THEY’VE SPLIT KUTUPLALONG INTO A NUMBER OF SMALLER CAMPS WHERE INDIVIDUAL CHARITIES TAKE RESPONSIBILITY. (:39)
36. In the camp with Rebecca Derry and GVS GVS: What is this camp called? Is this still Camp 12?
RD: Yes.
GVS: 20,000 plus live here?
RD: 20,000 plus.
GVS: And you can see how all the houses, or homes, are built into this hilly terrain so when the monsoon starts in earnest, it creates a horrible danger.
RD: Absolutely.
GVS: So what’s to protect these houses from pancaking on top of each other?
RD: Nothing.
GVS: Nothing at all. Has anyone dies from the mudslides as far as you know?
RD: Yes. We had a child under 5 die two weeks ago from a landslide.
GVS: What happened? What do you know about it?
RD: His home was crushed from the slide.
GVS: Where’s the rest of his family?
RD: I don’t know.
GVS: How did you find out about it?
RD: We get reports about everything that happens in the camps. And so it was reported, unfortunately, that we lost him.
16:08
GVS: What efforts are being done to protect families from landslides? I mean, I don’t know what can be done. They’ve lifted all the trees and built them into homes. They have used everything, and there’s nothing to hold the soil in even if it would withstand the monsoon.
RD: That’s right. So they are trying to move people out as quickly as possible to areas that are more stable, but it’s a slow process and there’s not a lot space to put them.
GVS: But would the people even want to move again? I mean they’ve already been run out of Myanmar. As horrible as this is, at least it’s become home. You know the person who lives next door to you.
RD: They’re trying to move people in family groups so they still have that feeling of placement, but yea, it’s really hard to uproot a second time and move somewhere else.
GVS: And I look over here and I see bags. I assume that’s an attempt to prevent a mudslide.
RD: So what you’re seeing there is that’s places where there were homes. And they have been taken off because that’s a high landslide area. These spots that you see, that’s where people have been moved out.
GVS: So when people move out, they take their homes?
RD: Yes.
GVS: Look at this, this huge roof-like area over there. What is all this?
RD: This is an attempt to keep the sand from coming down. They’re also trying to plant grass that will stabilize the soil a little better. And they put bamboo and tarp over it to try to keep it from falling on these lower houses.
37. GVS on trail GVS: Take a look at this, this is incredible. This is where a house probably was. And they moved the family out. And they take the house so no one moves in. But look, you can tell that this is just a cliff. And with a little bit of rain in the monsoon, what ever is here is just going to slide right down on top of these other homes.
38. GVS in camp, walking through narrow passages NAT Break, GVS: I don’t know why these places don’t burn down in fires.
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39. GVS on trail Coming down these steps is treacherous. It’s unbelievable how dangerous even these steps are. It’s very slippery.
40. GVS on trail You can see that if I stretch, here’s the house and the other end of my hand is the cliff. So you know what’s going to happen when the rain comes and the cliff gives way? This house is going to go tumbling down on top of those other homes. This is very narrow passage and the monsoon rains, it’s not like your ordinary rain storm. It comes in buckets, and water literally washes away the land.
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41.
GVS walking with Michele
Broll of CARE GVS VO
NOW THAT THE RAINS HAVE COME, IT’S A RACE AGAINST LANDSLIDES. SEVERAL ORGANIZATIONS ARE WORKING TO MOVE FAMILIES TO SAFER GROUND.
I MET MICHELE BORNSTEIN FROM NEW YORK. SHEWORKS WITH CARE INTERNATIONAL OVER IN CAMP 16 TO RELOCATE WHO SHE CAN.
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18:53
42. GVS walks through the camps with Michele Bornstein MB: We did a site survey that recognized of the shelters, there were 810 that were particularly vulnerable to mudslides. They were on overhangings. They were in gulfs, they were in really risky places. But not all of them could be moved. Only about 460 of them could be.
GVS: So 400 of them are still at risk.
MB: So 400 of them we gave them extra shelter materials to try to mitigate against some of the slopes.
GVS: But it’s a daunting task. Look at these hills. We’ve seen what the monsoons have done. They washed out a road we were on today, in just a short order. I mean the monsoon’s going to go on for months. These 400 families are still at risk. It’s not academic. This is pretty serious.
MB: And beyond that, some of the households that we didn’t think were at risk, were destroyed in last week’s rains. So households that we didn’t think were particularly vulnerable had mudslides that weren’t anticipated because we didn’t understand how the land would work, what the soil quality was in all the different areas.
GVS: Do you have all the money and supplies you need?
MB: (laughs) No.
GVS: This is a new area?
MB: Yeah.
GVS: Are they building their own houses?
MB: So essentially, what happens is that we give materials and we give training, and then we lend support to vulnerable households. So most households build their own, but women headed households, households with elderly or children headed households, we have laborers do most or all of the construction.
43.
“Fatema” Rohingya Lang. GVS VO:
WHILE I WAS IN CAMP 16, I MET FATIMA. WHEN HER FAMILY FLED FROM MYANMAR HER HUSBAND WAS KILLED. HER SON LIVES IN THE CAMPS, BUT IS SO TRAMATUZIED, THAT I’M TOLD HE JUST ROAMS AROUND AIMLESSLY. SHE WAS HELPED BY CARE. (:14)
When we first reached Bangladesh, we took shelter at the bank of a river, but there was land erosion. Then some representatives from CARE, told us that there some new shelters being built further inland. They advised us and then helped us move here.
44. Coverage of NGOs, Timelapses Music In
BUT FOR EVERY PERSON LIKE FATEMA, THERE ARE DOZENS OF OTHERS NEEDING IMMEDIATE HELP.
THE NEEDS COME FLOODING IN, EVERY DAY, EVERY HOUR, EVERY MINUTE. (:14)
21:09
45. TRANSITION TO: GVS on mud road GVS: I mean just take a look at this. Since the time we came into the camp just a short while ago, the monsoon started pouring water in, and this road has now washed away. But it’s not just a matter of fixing the road. This is a crisis because take a look down here. Look how soft this land is and the rain is pouring in. So every time you turn around, there is a more danger situation that has arisen. Take a look at this road. They’re trying desparately fill it with soil, but who wants to get in a car, or walk across it when the road is so narrow and it’s giving way like this in this pouring rain. And it’s not just a matter of getting into the camp and transportation. How do you think they’re going to get food in here if they can’t bring a truck? What about medical care and medical equipment? Every single moment, the crisis builds.
21:58
46. GVS walking on mud road, up hill GVS: This is interesting. Here comes an ambulance. Before I was talking about how do you get cars in here to help people… Hello sir, it’s very dangerous, very dangerous. You might want-
Driver: So can I go?
GVS: I don’t know. They say that but you might want to get out of the car and go look at it.
Driver: I have patient already.
GVS: You have a patient?
Driver: Yeah.
GVS: Where are you trying to get to?
Driver: Hospital over there-
GVS: The hospital up on the hill? This is what the danger is. This is an ambulance. And when I said that something new happens every 5 minutes, before I was talking about the road washed out and how dangerous it was. Now we’ve got a patient in an ambulance trying to get to a hospital. Supposedly, this road is repaired, but even with my own weight I can push the soil down. Wait until the rain comes. What will happen when heavy vehicles come through?
Every time you turn around there’s another, bigger crisis. And you wonder more can these people endure? How much more? And it just doesn’t stop.
23:19
47. Broll of despondent refugees, women FOR THE REFUGEES, IT’S A PERFECT STORM.
PERSECUTION.
MUDSLIDES.
IDLENESS.
DISEASE.
WHERE THERE IS MUCH THAT IS GOOD THAT IS BEING DONE HERE, THIS CAMP HAS ALSO BECOME A TARGET FOR THOSE WHO WOULD COME TO PREY ON THE ROHINGYA. (:24)
48. BREAK #2 23:49-23:54 BREAK #2 (Suggested for 2 minutes)
49. Aerial Scenics of Camps, Timelapse
Broll of Life in the
Camps
23:55
Music In
GVS VO
THE KUTUPALONG REFUGEE CAMP IN BANGLADESH IS JUST ACROSS THE RIVER FROM THE HOME OF THE ROHINGYA. THE MYANMAR MILITARY HAS DRIVEN NEARLY ONE MILLION ROHINGYA TO THIS CAMP.
VO: The international community has condemned the violence against Rohingya civilians that amounted to what the United Nations termed as “Ethnic cleansing.”
24:23
SOT FEMALE UN OFFICIAL: “EVERY WOMAN OR GIRL WE SPOKE WITH REPORTED HAVING EITHER ENDURED OR WITNESSED SEXUAL VIOLENCE”
SOT POPE FRANCIS: “IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TAKE DECISIVE MEASURES TO ADDRESS THIS GRAVE CRISIS.”
SOT FEMALE: Most have little or nothing to go back to. Their homes and villages have been destroyed.
SOT MALE: We are struggling for resources. We need resources fast.
IT'S A HUMANITARIAN CRISIS, ONLY MADE WORSE BY THE MONSOON RAINS.
THE ROHINGYA HERE ARE CAUGHT IN LIMBO. THEY CANNOT HAVE JOBS. THERE ARE NO SCHOOLS. THERE ARE FEW SOURCES OF INFORMATION.
THEY SIT IDLE, UNHAPPY, AND LARGELY DEPENDENT ON AID SUPPLIED BY INTERNATIONAL GOVERNMENTAL AND NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS WHO HAVE SENT GOOD PEOPLE TO HELP.
BUT BESIDES THOSE WHO BRINGING RELIEF, OTHERS ARE DRAWN TO THE CAMPS TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE CRISIS. AS SO OFTEN HAPPENS, THE VICTIMS ARE VICTIMIZED A SECOND TIME. MOST VULNERABLE ARE WOMEN AND YOUNG GIRLS, WHO ARE TARGETED BY TRAFFICKERS TO BE LURED OR TAKEN AND USED FOR FORCED LABOR OR SEX. (1:20)
50. GVS and Ali Kabir, Human Rights Activist 25:47
AK: I discovered traffickers after sunset, 5 o’clock. There’s no foreigners and no locals allowed.
GVS VO:
I MET WITH A HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST IN THE NEARBY CITY OF COX’S BAZAR. ALI KABIR HAD WORKED IN AGRICULTLURE HIS WHOLE LIFE. HE SAYS HE COULD NO LONGER REMAIN SILENT WHILE OTHERS WERE SUFFERING AT THE HANDS OF SOME ROHINGYA WHO THEMSELVES HAD FLED HERE YEARS BEFORE. (:17)
AK: Only the old Rohingyas. Those who are registered here, since 1978, 1991. They are staying in Bangladesh. They know everything. They are very familiar with Bangladesh culture. Human traffickers hiding them. And they go inside the camp. And they go and talk with the families. They convince them that they will provide a good job, better future, better life abroad, and better opportunities like this.
GVS: So the people that are involved in the trafficking are the Rohingyas who have been here in Bangladesh long before the latest exodus of Rohingyas from Myanmar?
AK: Yeah.
GVS: So the population that’s doing the trafficking are Rohingya who have been here in Bangladesh for a number of years?
AK: Yeah. They have become brokers of a big trafficking network.
GVS: How do they get the women out of the camps? Because the Bangladesh government won’t let the Rohingyas leave the camp. The Rohingyas that came over from Myanmar in the last year and a half can’t leave the camp so how do the brokers get them out of the camps?
AK: Well, ma’am, I tell you, here in Bangladesh, they have no system at the checkpost. When they are at the checkpost, they check only Bangladesh national ID card. And human traffickers obtain fake national ID card.
51. Broll of cell phone GVS VO
HE ALSO SHOWED ME PICTURES OF THE WOMEN HE SAYS WERE VICTIMS. (:05)
52. GVS and Ali look at photos on cell phone (all images are clear with AK) GVS: She is Rohingya?
AK: Yes.
GVS: From the refugee camp. And they were going to sell her or bring her out of the country?
AK: Yes.
GVS: What was she getting paid? Do you know? What was the offer?
AK: The offer was providing her a beauty parlor job abroad in Malaysia, Thailand. And providing her a job in a factory.
GVS: Did you ever speak with her family?
AK: Yeah, I spoke with her parents. They were in shock. After they learned the real story, reality.
GVS: They thought it was a legitimate deal that she was going overseas for this career?
AK: Yes.
GVS: Did any of them get emotional?
AK: They just requested me not to tell this thing to other people. Because her future will be dark.
GVS: Future in terms of getting a husband, or future employment-
AK: Husband.
GVS: Husband? Really?
AK: Husband. And community will not let them live in peace.
GVS: So it’s very much a cultural thing as well.
AK: Yes. The people are going to insult them. They will not get respect. They will hate her. They will look at her in a bad eyes.
GVS: Are Rohingya families protesting this? Are they complaining if a member of their family goes off to some sex trade?
AK: Well, ma’am, where are they going to protest? There is no proper place they can go to submit a complaint. Where can they go to seek a legal process? Where can they go seek justice? Where can they go?
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54. OMITTED
“59” Transition to silhouette interview with “Amina” Rohingya language 29:47
A: I was in a forced marriage for eight months.
55. “Amina” continues A; I was told the army could take me away by force. It would be better if I got married in order to save my honor. Since my mother is blind, she agreed to marry me off.
We had just arrived in Bangladesh for the first time. We didn’t know anything about the place. We didn’t know the laws or the rules. We came here with a lot of fear from all the violence.
56. Back to GVS and Ali 30:31
AK: They were very helpless, hopeless. There was no police. They were in the camp. Nothing. And there was fear, and they give the daughter to him.
GVS: So she goes with him. Was she crying or screaming? Upset or agreeable?
AK: She don’t want to go with him.
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57. “Amina” A: I was so fearful. I’m just a teenager. But they grabbed my neck, and I was so scared. That’s why I was crying a lot. I was so upset. My mom said, “God has not given permission.” But those people said that it was God’s will to get married to that man. My mom turned to me and told me to just accept my fate.
58. Back to GVS and Ali AK: And where can she go to ask for protection? And the parents say I’m sorry, we are helpless. He’s going to kill us. We have to give my daughter to him.
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60. Back to GVS and Ali GVS: This man came and took her, and I guess took her, is that for sex?
AK: Marry her.
GVS: This would be wife number three?
AK: Marry her, later when the first wife pressuring him, he let her go.
GVS: So he let her go?
AK: Let her go. This Rohingya girl has no value.
GVS: No value. Because she’s Rohingya.
AK: Yes.
GVS: Zero.
AK: Zero.
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61. Broll of Camps
Broll of women Music Fades in
GVS VO:
AND THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE THE ROHINGYA HERE DON'T TALK ABOUT.
WHEN THE BURMESE MILITARY ATTACKED, THEY DIDN'T JUST KILL AND SET HOUSES ON FIRE. THEY RAPED.
AND THE VICTIMS OF THOSE RAPES ARE HERE NOW. THEY FACE A TERRIBLE STAIN THAT THEIR OWN CULTURE PUTS ON THEM AND ON THEIR NEWBORNS. (:18)
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“85” SR: We’re seeing a lot of women that are coming in right about now that have voiced to us that the babies are a result of rape.
GVS VO:
SARAH RAWLINS IS A NURSE FROM SEATTLE, WASHINGTON. SHE BOTH TREATS AND COUNSELS THE VICTIMS. THE CHALLENGES SHE FACES ARE HEARTBREAKING. (:07)
SR: It’s really hard. We see some pretty dire things happen as a result of unwanted pregnancies.
GVS: Are the women having babies in their homes?
SR: Yeah. Many of the women are having babies in their homes. I’d say the majority are having babies in their homes, and they’re not coming in here. Just the other week, one of our community health workers found a baby that had been left in a latrine. It was still alive. But covered in feces. They’ve been trying to track down and find the woman. But since the baby has been taken in to another organization. They’re feeding the baby. And trying to offer support and find community members who can help raise the child.
GVS: So they expect this child to survive?
SR: Yes. I believe the child is at a Doctors Without Borders Hospital.
GVS: Is that an unusual situation? Are you finding other situations who are trying to terminate their pregnancies or having difficult births?
SR: We’re seeing more and more. And we’ve had several probably 20 plus women that I’ve spoken to that told me they want to terminate their pregnancy. And that they don’t want the child and the child is a result of rape.
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“86” Back to Ali Kabir with GVS AK: Rohingya culture is very complicated. Even the rape victims, those who have been raped by Myanmar military- you know what they say? “Oh she has evil in her belly. Stay away from her.”
GVS: If you’ve been raped by the Myanmar-
AK: Military. They are saying “evil in her belly. Stay away from her.” I went to talk with one pregnant from the rape, other Rohingyas advising me, “Sir, please don’t talk to her, she has evil in her belly.”
GVS: What happens after the baby’s born?
AK: She has no place in the society of Rohingya.
GVS: Zero?
AK: Zero. None. Yes. Her life is dark. And every one comes to know a lot of Rohingya girls, those who have been raped by Myanmar military, they’re hiding. They’re suffering quietly. They don’t want to expose. They don’t want to say, they say nothing.
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GVS VO:
SO WHAT DO WE DO? WHAT CAN WE DO? WHAT'S NEXT FOR THE ONE MILLION PEOPLE WHO SEEM TO WANT LITTLE MORE THAN TO GO HOME?
BUMPER GFX
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62. 2 MIN BREAK 35:15-35:20: BREAK #3, suggested for 2 minutes
63. Scenics Music in (Coming in at 38:32)
64.
WIDE SHOTS OF THE CAMP
SUN, SILHOUETTES OF PEOPLE AGAINST THE SKY
BROLL OF REFUGEES
GVS VO:
MORE THAN A YEAR AFTER THIS CRISIS BEGAN, THERE IS A LOT THAT SEEMS NORMAL IN THE KUTUPALONG REFUGEE CAMP.
YOU SEE IT BEST WHEN THE RAIN STOPS AND THE SUN COMES OUT. THERE’S NOW SOMETHING OF AN ECONOMY HERE AND A SOCIAL STRUCTURE FAMILIAR TO THE ROHINGYA.
BECAUSE COMMUNICATION WITH THE OUTSIDE IS SO DIFFICULT, WHEN NEWS COMES IN, IT SPREADS LIKE WILDFIRE FROM PERSON TO PERSON. IT’S NOT ALWAYS 100% ACCURATE, BUT IT’S A WAY FOR THE ROHINGYA TO BELIEVE THEY ARE NOT BEING FORGOTTEN.
THE ONE NATION THAT IS FOCUSED ON THE ROHINGYA IS THE HOST COUNTRY, BANGLADESH. BUT EVEN THOUGH THE COUNTRY IS DEVOTING RESOURCES AND ENERGY, IT SEEMS CLEAR BANGLADESH DOES NOT WANT THE ROHINGYA TO REMAIN.
IN FACT, THE BANGLADESH GOVERNMENT ONLY RELUCTANTLY CALLS THEM “ROHINGYA,” PREFERRING THE TERM 'FORCIBLY DISPLACED MYANMAR NATIONALS.’
THAT’S A REMINDER THAT THIS IS ALL TEMPORARY.
MYANMAR SAYS IT WILL WELCOME BACK THE REFUGEES, BUT IN REFUGEE CAMPS, NOT IN THEIR VILLAGES. AND EVEN IF THAT OCCURS, THE GOVERNMENT OF AUNG SAN SUU KYI SAYS THEY WILL STILL BE DENIED CITIZENSHIP AND OFFICIALLY REMAIN STATELESS UNDER THE MYANMAR CONSTITUTION. THEY WILL STILL BE STIGMATIZED. PEOPLE HERE DOUBT THAT, WITHOUT INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION, THEY WILL EVER SEE THEIR HOME VILLAGES AGAIN.
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“101” Caelin Briggs When you speak to people in the camp, they say they want to go home. And they are absolutely clear about that. But they will tell you, “We want to go home when it’s safe to do so and when we are able to access our rights in Myanmar.” And so far we haven’t seen much progress. And they tell us they haven’t seen much progress in seeing conditions improve for them. So I think that’s, from our point of view, where we do need to see governments like the US stepping up not just the financial assistance but also the diplomatic engagement to try to come up with a solution to this crisis that enables people to eventually return to their homes in a safe and voluntary way.
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“64” GVS Stand up in the camps If there’s any sort of silver lining in the cloud is that you are really inspired by the people who are here who are trying to help so many who are in desperate need. But this is a task that frankly, no matter how much people want to help, there’s not enough.
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“94” Shelley Thakral, World Food Program So we feed more than 850,000 people a month. It costs more than 20 million dollars a month to feed families. So that’s urgent. It’s still important that we don’t forget this community. It’s still important that we support this community. And that we make sure that women and children and those who are most vulnerable get the life-saving food that they need.
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“97” Rebecca Derry, Samaritan’s Purse And so, for many of the groups that are here, there’s just not enough funding to meet the needs that we have.
“85a” Sarah Rawlins, MTI & FH SR: We’ve got a lot of skin infections. A lot of dehydration, diaherrial diseases. We’ve had a huge Mumps outbreak. And then diphtheria. Diphtheria is on the tail end, coming down. But really, malnutrition. And then a lot of obstetrical needs.
“89” GVS speaks with Kaitlin Mason, RN
GVS: Americans are generous. People are generous all over the world. So tell me what do you need?
KM: What do we need? Oh my goodness!
GVS: Here’s your chance. What do you need here?
KM: This is going to be here a long time. So more people.
GVS: Volunteers?
KM: Yeah.
GVS: You see people with malnutrition coming through?
KM: For sure. Absolutely. I mean food for sure. Funding. Always.
GVS: What about medicine? Do you have enough medicine? Are you short of anything?
KM: We’re short medicines. Yeah.
GVS: What are you short of?
KM: Yesterday, they said the one was loratadine.
GVS: What’s that for?
KM: For allergies. We’d love more antibiotics. I think we’re out of Tylenol syrup. So we have kids with fevers all the time. I had a baby with a fever of 105 yesterday. So I think what they’re having to do is dissolve tablets in water and then give that to kids. Just simple things like paracetamol syrup.
GVS: It’s amazing how innovate these field hospitals are the fact that you can quickly do that. The rest of us run off to the drug store or something.
65. Transition to Samaritan’s Purse clinic. GVS Stand up and talk with Rebecca Derry in the triage area
Cut to: Diphtheria
treatment coverage GVS (in mask):. This is the intake facility or area for the Samaritan’s Purse clinic here in Bangladesh.
Why am I wearing a mask?
RD: Because people are coming in with unknown illnesses so we are here keeping people safe by using these masks until we figure out what’s going on with them.
GVS: Keeping them safe from me? Or me safe from them? Or both?
RD: Both.
GVS: So everyone in the intake wears it like this?
RD: Absolutely.
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GVS: Rebecca, tell me, what is the official name of this hospital?
RD: This is the Isolation and Infectious Disease Clinic.
GVS: When you first created the hospital, what was it intended to treat?
RD: Originally we were here treating diphtheria.
GVS: And what has become of the diphtheria outbreak?
RD: The diphtheria outbreak has gone down. There’s been a mass vaccination campaign. So right now that’s not a big issue but what is a becoming a big issue is acute watery diarrhea.
GVS: And also when I hear that I also think with all the water coming down and the fact that there’s so many people close together, there’s the possibility of cholera.
RD: Absolutely.
GVS: Which of course Samaritan’s Purse has treated in Haiti and other parts of the world. Now, what happens here?
RD: Here, you’ll be triaged by the nurses. And they will decide if you need to have follow-up, and what program you’ll be following up on, if you’ll be getting oral solution or IV solutions.
GVS: I notice a lot of people here are not American, you’re an American, right?
RD: I’m an American.
GVS: A number of Americans work here.
RD: Yes.
GVS: And they work here for about how long? What’s their term of duty?
RD: Usually between 6 and 8 weeks.
GVS: And how do you get the locals to work here?
RD: These are Bengali nurses who have come to work with us, and we’ve been training them so that they will be giving them care that is similar to the provision of care our nurses can give.
GVS: Now Samaritan’s Purse had a diphtheria clinic here before in Bangladesh. About how many patients did you get in the diphtheria clinic?
RD: In the diphtheria clinic, we triaged over 8,000 patients and we treated more than 1,100 for diphtheria.
GVS: So then this hospital or clinic has been constructed, waiting for the next onslaught of what you expect to be the problem.
RD: Absolutely. So we have changed the clinic so we can start treating acute watery diarrhea and any other infectious diseases that might happen.
GVS: So you get triaged out here, then you come in here right?
RD: Yes.
66. GVS with Rebecca Derry in clinic RD: So this is where Dr. Collin will make a decision about what kind of treatment this child needs. If it’s treatment we can provide here, we will make him an inpatient, so this is where all the decisions are made about what kind of treatment the child needs.
67. GVS with Rebecca Derry in clinic outside treatment area GVS: Who’s organizing all of this?
RD: It’s a multi group organization. We’re connected with Doctors without Borders, the Turkish field hospital, other organizations that are providing care. We all connect and talk and decide which patients should go where.
GVS: I mean it’s incredible all these organizations here. There’s almost a million people in all these camps.
RD: Absolutely.
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72. Transition to Driving shots, walking through camp
73. GVS outside tent in camp GVS: We’ve hiked into the inner part of the camp, at least this particular one, through all the mud, up and down the hills, it’s very slippery and the reason we’ve come to this home is that one of the children in this home was treated at Samaritan’s Purse, treated for diphtheria, and they thought the child was not going to make it, but this is one of those good stories.
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74. GVS with RD in tent
Coverage of child
being treated RD: This child came in very sick with diphtheria. He was having respiratory distress. We had to work several hours to get the anti-toxin into him. He was really struggling to breathe, and we really thought we were going to lose him for a few moments there. Actually, for a while, we thought we’d lose him.
GVS: How old is he?
RD: He is 2 ½.
GVS: Did you have to intubate him?
RD: We did intubate him.
GVS: Which is where you put something down his mouth, which goes down his throat and then you use like a bladder and you have to keep pumping. It’s not like in the United States. How long did someone have to keep pumping it?
RD: Hours.
GVS: Hours and hours. To help him breathe.
RD: Yes.
GVS: And you saved him! What a great story!
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GVS VO: And here he is……………and there he goes.
75.
76. 43:38
GVS VO: Here in the camps, diseases such as tetanus are a deadly threat because so few have been vaccinated.
77. Rebecca Derry talks about the story, Broll from the camp, Tabarak at home RD: Tabarak came to Samaritan’s Purse in April. His father brought him in because he was having muscle pain and back pain. He was having cramping and difficulty swallowing.
78. Tabarak, Rohingya language I had such terrible back pain. I couldn’t even stand up. I felt like I was going to die.
79. RD: Within a few minutes, it was clear that they believed he had tetanus. So we gave him an anti-toxin, which immediately started making a difference for him. But he was still quite ill. So we ended up sending him to Medcins Sans Frontières—Doctors Without Borders to get further treatment. He was there for two weeks, and he ended up making a full recovery.
80. Taher, Tabarak’s father in Rohingya language Once I got treatment for my son, I was so happy.
81. RD: And he was able to go home and now he’s a healthy teenage boy running around the camps.
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82. Taher He is doing so well now.
83. Tabarak,
Coverage of Tabarak playing soccer I’m feeling so much better since I have recovered. (44:46)
“24” Caelin Briggs, World Vision
Broll of WV Child Spaces It’s daunting some days, but I think we’re making progress.
Things like providing education to adolescents, providing livelihoods, opportunities, providing skills training, and just things to occupy people’s time, is something that’s really important.
If we can get that recognition that this will be a longer-term crisis, and we can get permission to start implementing some of those types of activities like formal education that we can help to counter-balance some of the idleness that comes with displacement.
World Vision provides a range of services in the camp. Reinforcing the shelters that are in the camp. Water and sanitation. I’m sure you heard we run child friendly spaces, we provide recreational support to help children recover a sense of normalcy. On average we have about 2,000 children coming each week to our child friendly spaces. We provide a range of recreational activities. Sometimes it might be drawing, it might be games, it might singing songs, it sort of depends on the day, but really what we’re trying to do is provide a fun, safe place for children to come play and be children even in the midst of all the difficult things around them.
GVS with Hamid and translator broll IN THE AREA KNOWN AS CAMP 13, I MET A BOY WHOSE NAME WE’VE CHANGED BECAUSE OF CONCERNS FOR HIS SAFETY IF HE RETURNS HOME. “HAMID” HAS BEEN DRAWING ABOUT HIS LIFE. HE HAS SEEN AND GONE THROUGH THINGS A CHILD SHOULD NEVER HAVE TO EXPERIENCE. (:17)
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“25” GVS with “Hamid” and translator, looking at drawing GVS: It says My Worlds. Can he explain it?
H: These are the places where I’ve lived.
GVS: So what’s this?
H: This house was burned to the ground.
GVS: And that’s his house?
H: This was my home.
GVS: What’s the hand for?
H: I saw a hand that had been cut off of someone. And there was blood.
GVS: So this represents a hand that he saw where, just on the ground?
H: (nods) People were slaughtered, and there were dead bodies on the ground.
GVS: Now, there’s a line. He drew a line down the middle. This is his new life?
H: One side is for my life in Myanmar, the other side is for my life in Bangladesh.
GVS: What’s this?
H: This is a boat that we used to cross the border.
GVS: Are these people?
H: The teachers are teaching the children.
GVS: And this?
H: That’s an owl.
GVS: It’s an owl? What sound does an owl make?
H: No reply.
GVS: (Laughing) All right, well I’m, I’m not going to make an owl sound for you! Tell him that I hope he continues to do his art. How do you say Thank you in his language?
Translator: Shukria
GVS: He laughed! Oh well, I tried right? Sukria.
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84. Maye Saephanh, MTI/Food for the Hungry I think when you look at the number of Rohingya refugees in the camps, it’s a daunting figure. But when you break down those figures and you are in the camps engaging with these individuals, you realize they’re just like you and me. They are mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters. I mean, their hopes and dreams are no different from our hopes and dreams for our children in our communities.
85. Tabarak, Rohingya Lang I want to be a teacher. I want to be able to provide for my family.
86. Rebecca Derry, Samaritan’s Purse The United States is known as a country that supports others, and right now the Rohingya people are really in need of support.
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“71” GVS with Rebecca Derry GVS: Many people back home in the States send a couple of dollars off to Samaritan’s Purse, I always want them to see how much they can help people.
RD: Absolutely.
GVS: And with the experience of all these NGOs that are here, is that they know how to handle this crisis.
RD: It’s unimaginable to think what would happen, even in the diphtheria outbreak, if Samaritan’s Purse and Doctors Without Borders were not here, we would have had a huge loss of life.
“70” GVS with Erin Stephenson, Samaritan’s Purse GVS: A lot of people back in the US say, why don’t you stay here in the US, I mean that’s what I hear all the time. People in the US need help, why you going there? What’s the answer to that?
ES: Well my grandpa says that same thing, and what I tell him usually is that in the States we’re really lucky that we have resources for people who don’t have what they need. If you’re hungry, you go the soup kitchen. If you’re in this refugee camp, and you’re hungry, you starve. So unless NGOs like Samaritan’s Purse and MSF and Food for the Hungry come here and provide those things, there’s no place else for the people to get what they need.
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88. Rebecca Derry It’s quite heart breaking to be here and see the catastrophe that can happen to these people and knowing that much of the world doesn’t care or doesn’t know about it. It’s devastating to me to see this entire people group who have such great needs not being shown in the public, not being broadcast in the US. No one really knows about it, and that’s… it’s really hard to see that.
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91. OMITTED
92. MOVED
93. Maye Saephanh Recently I was in the camp, a couple days ago, and there was a father with his new born baby who was days old. And the baby was sick, but he sort of had this glassy look. And that comes from sustained periods of hardship and trauma.
People are very resilient; however, you can see the experience of suffering and traumatic experiences lived in their expressions and their eyes.
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“99” Fatema, Rohingya Language Don’t you think, I am very sad? I’ve given up my home in Myanmar. Lots of people were killed in Burma. I have suffered so much. Here in this camp we are having a miserable life, yet I don’t feel anything for life in Burma. Here I am getting lots of assistance. They have built my home out of tarps. So at least, I have a roof over my head. If I go back to Burma, who will look after me? I lost my husband, and my son is gone. I escaped here. I have shelter and food, so for that, I am thankful.
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94. Caelin Briggs, World Vision I think we’re at the stage now where we need to be collectively recognizing that this is not a short term crisis. These people are not leaving next week. They’re probably not leaving next month. And I think we need to be prepared for the possibility that they will be here for many months, if not years, to come.
52:25-52:30: FINAL BREAK
95. CLOSING VO GVS VO:
HERE IN THE CAMPS, THE DAYS DRAG BY.
MORE THAN ONE YEAR AFTER THEY WERE ATTACKED AND RUN OUT OF THEIR VILLAGES, THE ROHINGYA REMAIN IN BANGLADESH. CITIZENS AND GOVERNMENTS ARE NOW WORKING TOGETHER ON THEIR BEHALF, BUT WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM?
BUT THEY ARE NOT ALONE. MORE THAN 60 MILLION PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD ARE COUNTED AS REFUGEES OR MIGRANTS. ALL HAVE THEIR OWN STORIES OF HARDSHIPS, SECRETS, AND GREAT NEED.
THEY ALL FACE UNCERTAIN FUTURES. BUT NO MATTER WHERE THEY ARE, THEY ALL LOOK AHEAD WITH HOPE……THE HOPE THAT – ONE DAY -- THEY WILL NO LONGER BE… DISPLACED.
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