Arif Kabir

Biography:

Arif Kabir was born on September 13, 1991, in Chittagong, Bangladesh.

He is a photographer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is interested in photographing humanitarian issues. he has completed a Photography Diploma at Counter Foto - A Center for Visual Arts.
 

Into The Perdition

Bihari are generally identified as Urdu-speaking linguistic minority people living in Bangladesh who also identify themselves as non-Bengalese or even Stranded Pakistanis about their official status after the war of 1971 that led to the breakup of erstwhile Pakistan and the creation of Bangladesh. Since they could not avail themselves of either Pakistani or Bangladeshi Citizenship from 1971 to 2008 their legal status was “Stateless People”.

For decades Bangladesh and Pakistan Governments couldn’t recognize and give them proper citizenship. In 2008 Bangladesh government approved citizenship and voting rights for about one lac and fifty thousand refugees who were minors at the time of the 1971 War of Independence.

They virtually holed in different relief camps in Dhaka and are only expected to feel a profound and pervasive sense of insecurity. Bihari’s generally lived a ghettoized life amid sustained suspicion and fear in the state and society. Curtain actions of the state seem to have only deepened such suspicion and fear.

The arson attack in the Mirpur Bihari Camp on Shab-e-Barat, killed ten persons including nine of a family arson a man was shot and killed by police and some houses have been burnt to ashes due to clashes.