Bean Sprout

A sunny day in July, four boys: Firaz, Sandy, Malik, Toni; and two girls: Anna and Nina sat in a round in the attic of their grandparent’s house. Their eyes led to the rolled old paper which Firaz brought. He opened the paper in front of them. It was a map. There was sketch that symbolized the forest and mountain with some path as a link. In the middle of that map there was a big red X mark. An old map with red X mark meant that it was a treasure map. Several hours before, Firaz was being caught by his aunt because he was about to steal some croissant that would be served in his cousin’s wedding party on that night. He run off and hid himself in the old warehouse near his grandparent’s house. While he was hiding, his eyes caught an interesting antique box on the corner of that room, on the top of a big shelf. He climbed the shelf with little cough because of the dust. It looked so old and dusty. Carefully, he opened the box. He found some handwriting on the old paper with the lette...

          Nowadays, there are so many crises about humanity. The most terrible humanitarian crisis today is being experienced by Rohingya refugees in Rakhine, Myanmar. They have been removed from Myanmar or Burma with violation by Myanmar’s security forces. The security forces had burn Rohingya houses, kill the Rohingya’s children, kidnap, and rape the Rohingya’s women and young girls. Those actions are so inhuman, cannot be tolerable, and of course against Buddhist rules.            Violence that Myanmar’s security forces did to Rohingya’s is inhumane. The International Organization for Migration's Director General William Lacy Swing said that particularly women and girls, but also men and boys, have been targeted for. They are at risk of further exploitation, violence and abuse simply because of their gender, age and status in society. This fact reflect that the security forces did not apply their own religion’s moral to the...