Contribute to Rohingya Documents
A document is a promise kept on paper. It says a family lived here, owned this land, belonged to this place. When the papers are lost, the promise is easier to deny. Every photograph added to this archive keeps one of those promises visible, for the people who kept it and for everyone who comes after them.
The archive is built by the community. Photographers, elders, students and translators all add to it, and everything they share stays free for anyone to read.
Ways to contribute
Share a family documentPhotographs→
Photograph each page in daylight, flat and in focus, front and back. Tell us what the document is, whose family kept it and where it was issued. Cover ID numbers you do not want published.
Get in touchAdd a caption or translationKnowledge→
Many documents are in Burmese. If you can read them, help us record what they say, the year they were issued and the office that issued them.
Get in touchCorrect a recordAccuracy→
If a title, date or place is wrong, tell us the document's address on this site and what should change. Corrections from families come first.
Get in touchPhotograph documents in the campsPhotography→
Photographers in Cox's Bazar and Bhasan Char can document collections kept by elders, with their consent, and share them with the archive.
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