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*Although TIME magazine’s Person of the Year for 2017 goes to the “Silence Breakers” on abuse, it is difficult to overlook the plight of the stateless Rohingya tribe from Myanmar who have also been abused.
Everyone is in a festive mood this Christmas season, but they are not, as their plight goes on. It is reported that way over 600,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since violence against them by Myanmar forces began.
The UN has said that Myanmar forces may be guilty of genocide against Rohingya. Myanmar leader, Aung San Suu Kyi has been disappointing and has had a poor response to the repression of her country’s Rohingya people, Christians and Muslims and others. Celebrating Christmas under their circumstance is the least of the Rohingya tribe’s worries.
At the end of his Asia tour, Pope Francis met with the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, as a symbol of support for them. Watching UK’s Sky News Correspondent Ashish Joshi tell the traumatic stories of the Rohingya people was just enough for me to put my pen to paper. Like REM’s song “Everybody hurts”…I hurt for Rohingya.
EURweb.com contributor, TAYO Fatunla is an award winning Nigerian Comic Artist, writer and illustrator and Editorial cartoonist. He is a graduate of the prestigious U.S. Art school, The Kubert School, New Jersey. His cartoons are used for educational purposes in school books, Newsletters, journals and for presentations – www.tayofatunla.com
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