Al Jazeera

Tasmida Johar is happy she was able to study despite the odds but wishes other Rohingya women also had the opportunity.

“I want to fight for the rights to education, health of the oppressed women, and raise [my] voice against trafficking of young girls. It is only befitting that a Rohingya takes the mic and speaks the truth as we are being wiped from many privileged spaces and stories,” she said, her voice firm. “People from my community saw the headlines and realised they can also be visible. Tasmida travelled to school and college in a bus. The only thing we can give them is ‘taaleem’ (education).” “Many times, I didn’t get a seat on the bus. “I didn’t want my identity to be revealed to all the children at school because neither did I want any special treatment nor did I want to face any indifference or being called terrorist and other names. So they came to the national capital and settled in southeast Delhi’s Kalindi Kunj camp. Hence, I kept to myself most of the time,” she said. Very often, he was detained and only released after the police took some money from him,” she told Al Jazeera. More than a thousand of them live on the outskirts of New Delhi. “I feel happy about these headlines, ‘first this, first that’, but at the same time, it also makes me sad.