crossfire, abducted, or executed. Faced with these dire circumstances, I had no choice but to leave my home and seek refuge in Bangladesh.” Madulla (Name changed) was forcibly displaced from home in Maung Ni Fara village in Maungdaw Township, when the AA launched a brutal assault on the community. He states that they burned down their homes and executed two men in front of him. Fearing for his life and the safety of his loved ones, he fled with his family. “Our displacement was not only the event, but approximately 4,500 villagers from Maung Ni Fara were also displaced, and at least 1,000 are reported to have disappeared. Within my extended family alone, 50 members have been displaced and two are missing. Although neither I nor my immediate family faced direct violence, the atrocities committed by the AA, including the murder of Rohingya civilians, rape of women, and indiscriminate violence, left us with no choice but to flee.” The Arakan Army deliberately created circumstances for the Rohingya community across Rakhine State to flee voluntarily often by paying and taking precarious journeys from Rakhine State to other states like Yangon and eventually to a third country. He details how he lives in Kutupalong Camp 1E, while his family is in Balukhali camp. “I have not been able to reunite with them due to lack of money and shelter. I think about them every day.” His sense of separation is shared by 16-year-old Amir Faisel, who fled to Thailand with his sister, leaving behind his parents, who could not afford to escape from Rakhine State, Myanmar. These testimonies show that leaving places or their own villages is not an individual choice but a forced decision imposed through a series of violent incidents. For many, this journey of fleeing their places, as reported by testimonies and also various media outlets, takes days and weeks, often without food, shelter, or protection, or to say precisely under life-threatening situations. Since June 2024, there have been multiple reports of river drownings, deaths, and killings among people fleeing conflict or undertaking dangerous journeys. Many community people, including children, drowned while attempting to cross into Bangladesh by boat to escape violence. In such a situation when people are killed and families or their relatives become unaware about each other, fragmentation becomes more emotional and brings unending anxieties. Imagine a mentally and emotionally displaced person, who for years has not been able to meet his loved ones; his level of pain would be at a different level. Displacement, in these cases, disables relationships, severs ties between families, isolates children from their parents, and consequently breaks kinship lines. 47