• I feel safe and calm, there are no sounds of bullets or bombs
  • It was when the fighting intensified and women were being routinely raped that I was forced to leave
  • This is the life of a refugee, living from day to day.
  • Every human being needs to have freedom of thought
  • Of course we still struggle but we are not faling, we are succedding. We are making a new life for ourselves.
  • After six months in the camp I was raped one night.
  • In Chin State we are like salves of the government
  • It has been almost six years since I've seen my family
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  • International Rescue Committee
  • European Comission
  • panos pictures
Photographs by Andrew McConnell