The more time we spent with Gul, the more it became clear how her experiences, and the experiences of her family, had mirrored what happened to so many other Rohingya who’d faced decades of repression and abuse. The Rohingya aren’t just the world’s largest group of stateless people, they’re also among the world’s most persecuted minorities. Gul’s son, Oli Ahmed, recalled the sheer terror of what happened when Myanmar’s military descended upon them in 2017. “They set the village ablaze,” said Oli, “firing on people, killing people. They cut people. They slaughtered people. And we escaped out of fear.”
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