"They wanted to erase us"

Working with Legal Action Worldwide to highlight the plight of Rohingya children facing persecution and genocide

I was asked recently to design a report for Legal Action Worldwide (LAW) who improve access to justice to the most vulnerable in conflict-affected and fragile regions. This report focussed on the impact on displaced children within the Rohingya community in both Myanmar (and now Bangladesh as refugees) following wide-spread abuse and genocide by the ruling Myanmar military government.

The creative idea that I had was simple, and was inspired by one of the pull-out quotes which now features on the front cover above; 'They wanted to erase us'. The Myanmar military government did (and continue to) want to wipe out an entire ethnic group with their treatment of the Rohingya, clearly meeting the definition of 'genocide'. So, to reflect this 'erasure' I 'redacted' the first quote with red blocks, then used them to cover faces in the photography and for all pull-out quotes throughout the document. See project page here.

See LAW report here.