{"id":7011,"date":"2024-08-29T11:40:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T11:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/29\/massacre-survivors-say-history-is-repeating-with-new-perpetrators\/"},"modified":"2024-08-29T11:40:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T11:40:26","slug":"massacre-survivors-say-history-is-repeating-with-new-perpetrators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/29\/massacre-survivors-say-history-is-repeating-with-new-perpetrators\/","title":{"rendered":"Massacre survivors say history is repeating \u2013 with new perpetrators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/editor-note\/instances\/cm0eph1wt00083b6k05fvexzz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"editor-note\" class=\"editor-note inline-placeholder vossi-editornote-primary-core-light\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">    <em>Editor\u2019s Note: This story contains graphic descriptions of violence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0db9tue000sc1qie7vp38ua@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            As tears roll down her face and her body shivers with pain, Hamida cradles her 4-year-old daughter and baby boy on her lap, comforting them as they cry for their father.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vp00043b6k0xegt3hd@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The 22-year-old ethnic Rohingya is surviving on the kindness of fellow refugees in a camp near Cox\u2019s Bazar, Bangladesh \u2013 and trying to process the horrors she endured in neighboring Myanmar, where a civil war is raging between the country\u2019s military and rebel groups including the Arakan Army.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vp00053b6kh4fq34b3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cAfter they entered my home, they hit me, beat me, and I was struggling to get free when they raped me,\u201d Hamida says. \u201cFor at least one hour, they tied me up.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vp00063b6k0nt2vrnl@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Hamida \u2013 who asked to only use her first name for fear of reprisals \u2013 says seven Arakan Army soldiers gang-raped her during the attack in Myanmar\u2019s western Rakhine state in late July.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vp00073b6kcve42pwl@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cI screamed, so they closed my mouth with their hands,\u201d she says. \u201cThey raped me. They beat me with their guns. They kicked me. Still, I can\u2019t move (without) pain.\u201d    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/interactive-video\/instances\/cm0dhsn8i00013b6kb98kyvhv@published\" class=\"interactive-video\" data-component-name=\"interactive-video\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"interactive-video__container \">            <video class=\"interactive-video__player\" loop=\"\" muted=\"\" autoplay=\"\" playsinline=\"\"><\/video>        <\/div>\n<div class=\"interactive-video__metadata\">\n<div class=\"interactive-video__caption\">                <span data-editable=\"metaCaption\" class=\"inline-placeholder\">Hamida weeps as she tells CNN that she was raped in Myanmar by soldiers who then killed her husband.<\/span><figcaption class=\"interactive-video__credit\">CNN<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vp00083b6kmkpqb6l9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            During the attack, she says her husband heard her screams and ran into their hut to save her \u2013 but he was pinned down and forced to watch.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vp00093b6kc6duf4yk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cThey slaughtered my husband after they raped me,\u201d she says. \u201cFour Arakan Army soldiers were holding him down tightly, and one slaughtered him with a big sharp knife.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vp000b3b6ky9ni7vuq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Known as the world\u2019s biggest refugee camp, more than a million Rohingya Muslims are sheltering in makeshift tents near the town of Cox\u2019s Bazar \u2013 most of whom fled there in August 2017, after Myanmar\u2019s military killed an estimated 10,000 people in what United Nations experts labeled a genocide.    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/interactive-video\/instances\/cm0dhtgif00033b6kusrvnt27@published\" class=\"interactive-video\" data-component-name=\"interactive-video\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"interactive-video__container \">            <video class=\"interactive-video__player\" loop=\"\" muted=\"\" autoplay=\"\" playsinline=\"\"><\/video>        <\/div>\n<div class=\"interactive-video__metadata\">\n<div class=\"interactive-video__caption\">                <span data-editable=\"metaCaption\" class=\"inline-placeholder\">More than a million Rohingya refugees live in makeshift housing at the sprawling Cox&#8217;s Bazar camp.<\/span><figcaption class=\"interactive-video__credit\">CNN<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vp000c3b6k99ribsit@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Now, new arrivals like Hamida are bringing reports of mass murder, bombing attacks on civilians, and burning villages \u2013 which bear hallmarks of the 2017 attacks, seven years later. But this time, the ethnic Rakhine rebel group Arakan Army is being blamed for the brutality.    <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"subheader\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/subheader\/instances\/cm0dfwcqa001i3b6kbabj6f73@published\" data-component-name=\"subheader\" id=\"it-felt-like-the-end-of-the-world\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">        \u2018It felt like the end of the world\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vp000e3b6kelb3tx28@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Witnesses say the deadliest day for attacks&nbsp;was August 5, when an estimated 200 people were killed as drones rained down bombs on those fleeing fighting in the town of Maungdaw.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vp000f3b6kbuyu6ose@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Videos circulated widely online show piles of bodies \u2013 mostly women and children surrounded by their belongings \u2013 scattered around a mangrove forest along the shoreline, slaughtered as they tried to board boats to Bangladesh.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vp000g3b6kvvrq0382@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Abdul Bashar, a 48-year-old father who survived the drone attacks, says they took place around 6 p.m. that day.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vp000h3b6k6z6h2pkz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cWhen we reached the border fence, we saw a large bomb fall on a group of people, killing many of them,\u201d he says. \u201cThey were attacking with drones, gunfire, and heavy weapons. It felt like the end of the world.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vp000i3b6kfnnyrm7w@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Bashar saw his 17-year-old son die, along with his sister, who was killed as she breastfed her 8-month-old daughter.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vp000j3b6kkyer5xjt@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cI couldn\u2019t look back because bombs were falling heavily,\u201d he said. \u201cI had two of my children with me, and I was bleeding.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vp000k3b6kw5bx8e61@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Bashar is now sheltering in a Cox\u2019s Bazar camp with his 10-year-old nephew \u2013 whose parents and five siblings died in the attack. The boy survived despite severe shrapnel wounds to his arm.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vp000l3b6k5twke9ai@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cI feel that death would be better than living through this,\u201d Bashar said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vp000m3b6kszrri7un@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            A new report from human rights group Fortify Rights urges the International Criminal Court (ICC) to&nbsp;\u201cinvestigate a massacre of Rohingya civilians perpetrated by the Arakan Army (AA).\u201d&nbsp;A separate report from Human Rights Watch says the attacks \u201craise the specter of ethnic cleansing.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfxlkq001n3b6k9833v6f5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            He said AA fighters had \u201cnever targeted or killed innocent civilians,\u201d claiming the August 5 drone attacks were carried out by the military.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vp000o3b6kb5m82pbz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            In response to a separate question about Hamida\u2019s testimony of gang rape, the AA\u2019s Khaing Thu Ka said the group would \u201ccertainly investigate\u201d her case.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vp000p3b6kvc5gbhcf@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The Rohingya people \u2013 a largely Muslim ethnic group with a distinct language and culture \u2013 have long been persecuted and denied citizenship in majority-Buddhist Myanmar, with official propaganda describing them as \u201cBengalis\u201d or \u201cillegal immigrants.\u201d They are also denied official status in Bangladesh, making them known as \u201cthe world\u2019s most unwanted people.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vp000q3b6kc3j1vyz8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Bangladesh\u2019s new interim chief Muhammad Yunus has promised to continue supporting the Rohingya in his country, but has appealed for the fighting in Myanmar to end so they can return to their homeland with \u201csafety, dignity and full rights.\u201d    <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"subheader\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/subheader\/instances\/cm0dfxqt6001p3b6kcmv7p2xq@published\" data-component-name=\"subheader\" id=\"overnight-exodus\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">        Overnight exodus<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vp000s3b6kdt8nn40m@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Tight controls remain in place along the 18-mile (30-kilometer) shoreline of the Naf River snaking between Myanmar and its neighbor \u2013 with Bangladeshi border guards under orders to try to keep the fleeing Rohingya out.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vp000t3b6k1jfktgt0@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Refugees are now using the cover of darkness to try to evade capture, often setting out from Myanmar around 10 p.m. to make the 1.8-mile (3-kilometer) journey across the water.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vq000v3b6kg8155dn2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            All the phones on her boat had been switched off for security during the journey, so he went for hours without hearing an update.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vq000w3b6k2vp8p3a6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cI am really very concerned,\u201d said Mohammed, who didn\u2019t want to use his real name. \u201cThis is my big sister.\u201d    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/interactive-video\/instances\/cm0dhu45900053b6kamta9j38@published\" class=\"interactive-video\" data-component-name=\"interactive-video\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"interactive-video__container \">            <video class=\"interactive-video__player\" loop=\"\" muted=\"\" autoplay=\"\" playsinline=\"\"><\/video>        <\/div>\n<div class=\"interactive-video__metadata\">\n<div class=\"interactive-video__caption\">                <span data-editable=\"metaCaption\" class=\"inline-placeholder\">The Naf River between Myanmar and Bangladesh has become an escape route for Rohingyas.<\/span><figcaption class=\"interactive-video__credit\">CNN<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vq000x3b6kaa3x9mop@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            He\u2019s worried that his sister, who can\u2019t swim, could drown during the crossing. Many refugee boats have sunk in recent weeks, the bodies of their desperate passengers&nbsp;eventually washing ashore and buried in shallow graves on the beach.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vq000y3b6k0gn1dryr@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Compounding Mohammed\u2019s&nbsp;fears are the pre-dawn sounds of explosions and rifle fire just across the river \u2013 a reminder of why his sister and other Rohingya are fleeing.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vq000z3b6klvnhzi9n@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            On the Bangladesh side, it has become a game of cat and mouse for the coast guard to spot boats emerging from the inky waters before they make it onto land. The full moon casts a silver glow over the river, putting incoming boats in extra danger of being spotted.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vq00113b6k99cjxw13@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Mohammed\u2019s sister never appears that night, and by dawn, his panic starts to rise.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vq00123b6kjmox5aka@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cThe world is now dark for me,\u201d he said. \u201cI lost everything \u2026 in my life.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vq00133b6kjxjan9jn@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Hours later, he hears that his sister made it to land further up the coast \u2013 but was kidnapped by brokers demanding payment for her release. Eventually she was able to reunite with Mohammed in the camps, but the family spent all of their money trying to get her to safety.    <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"subheader\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/subheader\/instances\/cm0dfyu5p001s3b6kygsp4er0@published\" data-component-name=\"subheader\" id=\"aa-wants-to-wipe-out-rohingyas\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">        \u2018AA wants to wipe out Rohingyas\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vq00163b6kxelwopac@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Calls are now growing for Bangladesh to allow humanitarian access for the incoming refugees.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vq00173b6kixb1annb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cUNHCR is calling on Bangladesh to provide access to safety for refugees escaping the violence in Northern Rakhine State, most recently in Maungdaw township,\u201d said Shari Nijman, spokesperson for UNHCR Bangladesh. \u201cAmong new arrivals are many women and children, including some with critical injuries from gunshots and shelling.\u201d    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/interactive-video\/instances\/cm0dhuvde00073b6kmw74khun@published\" class=\"interactive-video\" data-component-name=\"interactive-video\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"interactive-video__container \">            <video class=\"interactive-video__player\" loop=\"\" muted=\"\" autoplay=\"\" playsinline=\"\"><\/video>        <\/div>\n<div class=\"interactive-video__metadata\">\n<div class=\"interactive-video__caption\">                <span data-editable=\"metaCaption\" class=\"inline-placeholder\">Jamila Begum escaped Myanmar with four of her grandchildren.<\/span><figcaption class=\"interactive-video__credit\">CNN<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vq00193b6k8b9r7vd7@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Jamila Begum, 45, made it across in a boat with four of her grandchildren, including a 6-month-old baby.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vq001a3b6k5y405vr7@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            She said her family tried to run from their homes on August 5 during a pause in the fighting, but then bombs \u201cfell on the roof of the house,\u201d killing Begum\u2019s daughter as she held her youngest child \u2013 along with her husband and 7-year-old daughter.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vq001b3b6kqwhr02z6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Begum fled with her surviving grandchildren and they hid for five days before boarding a boat to Bangladesh. But her&nbsp;eldest grandchild didn\u2019t make it \u2013 he died from his injuries before they were able to find a boat, and she was forced to leave him on the beach.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vq001c3b6klvezzl00@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            After they left, she heard the AA had set fire to her village.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vq001e3b6k1qajsqpt@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Now, Begum is safe in the camps but fears for the future of her grandchildren, as their only guardian.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0dfv5vq001f3b6k5n3lid0u@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cSadness will not go from our lives,\u201d she says.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s Note: This story contains graphic descriptions of violence. As tears roll down her face and her body shivers with pain, Hamida cradles her 4-year-old daughter and baby boy on her lap, comforting them as they cry for their father. 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