Rohingya poet and genocide survivor, Mayyu Ali, recites a poem from "Exodus" and talks about his new biography published in French called "The Erasure."

BURNING ALIVE

By Mayyu Ali

The sky is silent

The earth is silent

The blade on the skin of my throat

I scream out and it echoes from hill to hill

Some say, victims can lie

See the wounds and scars on our bodies

Parents keep yet clothes of killed sons

Orphans keep the skulls of their parents

I watched the blood streaming down

Where my husband and son were consumed

Next, I watched

My baby was thrown into the bonfire

Burnt to fuel

Burnt to ashes

Disappeared in the thin air.

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