But he clung to the empty drum and struggled across the water with it for about 2. So after four days, Nabi told his parents he wanted to swim the delta to reach the thin line of land he could see in the distance — Shah Porir Dwip.In this Nov. They knew the strong currents could carry Nabi into the ocean.Nabi’s family fled, heading toward the coast, passing dead bodies.”In this Nov. The water was salty. Just since August, after their homes were torched by Buddhist mobs and soldiers, more than 600,000 Rohingya have risked the trip to Bangladesh. So on the afternoon of Nov. (Photo: AP)Although Rohingya Muslims have lived in Myanmar for decades, the country’s Buddhist majority still sees them as invaders from Bangladesh. It was another group of Rohingya swimming to Bangladesh with yellow drums.

Please keep me in your prayers,” he told his mother, while everyone around him wept.His parents didn’t want him to go.Eventually, though, they agreed, on the condition that he not go alone. But he never looked behind him. In just a week, more than three dozen boys and young men used cooking oil drums like life rafts to swim across the mouth of the Naf River and wash up ashore in Shah Porir Dwip, a fishing town and cattle trade spot.”Late afternoon on the next day, authorities spotted a few dots in the middle of the water. But when they arrived at the coast with a flood of other Rohingya refugees, they had no money for a boat and a smuggler. He doesn’t smile and rarely maintains eye contact.Nabi and the others strapped the cooking oil drums to their chests as floats, and stepped # into the water just as the current started to shift toward Bangladesh. 

In this Nov.In just a week, more than three dozen boys and young men used cooking oil drums like life rafts to swim across the mouth of the Naf River . He never went to school. (Photo: AP) Shah Porir Dwip: Nabi Hussain owes his life to a yellow plastic oil drum. One of his older brothers had left for Bangladesh two months ago, and they had no idea what had happened to him.Nabi grew up in the mountains of Myanmar, the fourth of nine children of a farmer who grows paan, the betel leaf used as chewing tobacco. (Photo: AP)The trouble started two months ago when Rohingya insurgents attacked Myanmar security forces.5 miles, all the way to Bangladesh.Nabi remembers swallowing water, in part because of the waves and in part to quench his thirst.Nabi knows almost no one in this new country, and his parents back in Myanmar don’t know that he is alive. 

They arrived at the same time as a pack of cattle — except that the cows came by boat.Every day, there was less food. The men stayed in groups of three, tied together with ropes."We had a lot of suffering, so we thought drowning in the water was a better option,” said Kamal Hussain, 18, who also swam to Bangladesh with an oil drum. 4, 2017, photo, Rohingya Muslims carrying yellow plastic drums they used as flotation devices walk down the Shah Porir Dwip dock after reaching Bangladesh.Rohingya Muslims escaping the violence in their homeland of Myanmar are now so desperate that some are trying to swim to safety in neighbouring Bangladesh. 4, 2017, photo, Rohingya Muslim Abdul Karim, 19, uses a yellow plastic drum as a floatation device as he swims the Naf river while crossing the Myanmar-Bangladesh border in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh. The Myanmar military responded with a brutal crackdown, killing men, raping women and burning homes and property. 4, 2017, photo, Rohingya Muslim Nabi Hussain, 13, poses for a portrait with the yellow plastic drum he used as a flotation device while crossing the Naf river in Shar Porir Dwip, south Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.Nabi is now alone, one of an estimated 40,000 unaccompanied Rohingya Muslim children living in Bangladesh. 

He looks down as he speaks, just a few feet from the water, and murmurs his biggest wish:"I want my parents and peace. The government denies them basic rights, and the United Nations has called them the most persecuted minority in the world. "I thought it was going to be my last dayThe 13-year-old Rohingya boy couldn’t swim, and had never even seen the sea before fleeing his village in Myanmar.

I was so scared of dying,” said Nabi, a lanky boy in a striped polo shirt and checkered dhoti. His legs ached.In this Nov. Nabi was in the middle, because he was young and didn’t know how to swim. (Photo: AP)Just after sundown, the group reached Shah Porir Dwip, exhausted, hungry and dehydrated. 3, Nabi joined a group of 23 other young men, and his family came to see him off.. The last Nabi saw of his village, all the homes were on fire. 4, 2017, photo, newly arrived Rohingya Muslims with yellow plastic drums they used to aid flotation while crossing the Naf river wait in Shah Porir Dwip to be transferred to a refugee camp in Cox&pvc floor carpet39;s Bazar, Bangladesh. But he clung to the empty drum and struggled across the water with it for about 2. So after four days, Nabi told his parents he wanted to swim the delta to reach the thin line of land he could see in the distance — Shah Porir Dwip.In this Nov. They knew the strong currents could carry Nabi into the ocean.Nabi’s family fled, heading toward the coast, passing dead bodies.”In this Nov. The water was salty. Just since August, after their homes were torched by Buddhist mobs and soldiers, more than 600,000 Rohingya have risked the trip to Bangladesh. 

So on the afternoon of Nov. (Photo: AP)Although Rohingya Muslims have lived in Myanmar for decades, the country’s Buddhist majority still sees them as invaders from Bangladesh. It was another group of Rohingya swimming to Bangladesh with yellow drums."Please keep me in your prayers,” he told his mother, while everyone around him wept.His parents didn’t want him to go.Eventually, though, they agreed, on the condition that he not go alone. But he never looked behind him. In just a week, more than three dozen boys and young men used cooking oil drums like life rafts to swim across the mouth of the Naf River and wash up ashore in Shah Porir Dwip, a fishing town and cattle trade spot.”Late afternoon on the next day, authorities spotted a few dots in the middle of the water. But when they arrived at the coast with a flood of other Rohingya refugees, they had no money for a boat and a smuggler. He doesn’t smile and rarely maintains eye contact.Nabi and the others strapped the cooking oil drums to their chests as floats, and stepped # into the water just as the current started to shift toward Bangladesh. In this Nov.In just a week, more than three dozen boys and young men used cooking oil drums like life rafts to swim across the mouth of the Naf River . He never went to school. 

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