Rohingya: Refugee Crisis in Colour

In 2016 Ali MC travelled to Rohingya refugee and IDP camps in Rakhine State (Myanmar) and southern Bangladesh.

Known as ‘the most persecuted people on earth’ the Rohingya are a Muslim minority from Myanmar who have been denied citizenship rights since 1982 and are subject to ongoing severe – and violent – persecution.

Ali managed to get access to the camps and villages in both countries and was arrested and interrogated by the Bangladesh military in the process.

The photographs would be published globally and exhibited in galleries around Australia. After the 2017 genocide, Ali’s photographs would also be one of the last visual documents of the Rohingya in Myanmar by an outside journalist.

An ongoing project, Rohingya: Refugee Crisis in Colour has seen Ali collaborate with Rohingya and Burmese communities in ongoing resistance against the military regime through advocacy, education and journalism.