IN PICTURES: A photographer’s haunting experience of the Rohingya crisis
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya are being chased out of Myanmar, which considers them stateless, and forced to seek refuge in neighbouring countries
10 December 2017 - 00:00
'I saw this small boy to the left of my view. He had pulled himself up onto the truck and was weeping. I couldn't hear much because the scene was so loud, but at one point the boy reached out his hand and tapped the leg of the man standing over the food.
"He then wrapped his arms around the man's leg, begging with tears rolling down his cheeks. I was struck by it: this vulnerable child in a massive crowd had clawed his way onto the truck in complete desperation. It is hard to compare that magnitude of sadness to anything else I have seen."..
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