Rohingya refugees find uneasy solace in Malaysia
Anwar Sadek Shah
"People were getting hit and killed and the police were arresting people. My whole village was burned down  " 13-year-old Anwar Sadek Shah Ahmad  says softly  cowering into  his  teacher's shoulder.
 Anwar  and  his  family fled their fishing village in Myanmar's Rakhine State in 2013 after violence broke out.
 His  grandmother   he  said  only fled Myanmar last year and is now in a refugee camp in Bangladesh  where more than 680 000 Rohingya have fled to since August 2017.
 he 's among the Rohingya refugees who escaped from Rakhine State by boat largely before 2015  when There are thousands of children like Anwar in Malaysia —he's among the Rohingya refugees who escaped from Rakhine State by boat largely before 2015  when Kuala Lumpur began turning back Rohingya arrivals.
 Anwar's father  has been working illegally in Penang since 2006 and paid smugglers to bring over  his  son  daughter and wife by boat.  Anwar  also has an infant brother who was born in Malaysia. The family are now registered with the UNHCR.
 Anwar  studies at the Penang Peace Learning Centre  also known as the School of Peace. On the morning CNN visited   Anwar  and the older students were being taught math while the younger students  aged three to six  did coloring. Their classroom was also home to two pet rabbits.
Malaysia is peaceful compared to what he left behind  says  Anwar . Now   he  spends  his  free time playing football with new friends from the neighborhood.
"People were getting hit and killed and the police were arresting people. My whole village was burned down  [TGT]says softly  cowering into  [TGT]  teacher's shoulder.
 Anwar  and  his  family fled their fishing village in Myanmar's Rakhine State in 2013 after violence broke out.
 His  grandmother   he  said  only fled Myanmar last year and is now in a refugee camp in Bangladesh  where more than 680 000 Rohingya have fled to since August 2017.
 he 's among the Rohingya refugees who escaped from Rakhine State by boat largely before 2015  when There are thousands of children like Anwar in Malaysia —he's among the Rohingya refugees who escaped from Rakhine State by boat largely before 2015  when Kuala Lumpur began turning back Rohingya arrivals.
 Anwar's father  has been working illegally in Penang since 2006 and paid smugglers to bring over  his  son  daughter and wife by boat.  Anwar  also has an infant brother who was born in Malaysia. The family are now registered with the UNHCR.
 Anwar  studies at the Penang Peace Learning Centre  also known as the School of Peace. On the morning CNN visited   Anwar  and the older students were being taught math while the younger students  aged three to six  did coloring. Their classroom was also home to two pet rabbits.
Malaysia is peaceful compared to what he left behind  says  Anwar . Now   he  spends  his  free time playing football with new friends from the neighborhood.