SittweIDP
09 NOVEMBER 2014 - SITTWE, RAKHINE, MYANMAR: A Rohingya laborer carries a 50 kilo (102 pounds) sack of rice to a ration distribution in a Rohingya Muslim IDP camp near Sittwe. After sectarian violence devastated Rohingya communities and left hundreds of Rohingya dead in 2012, the government of Myanmar forced more than 140,000 Rohingya Muslims who used to live in and around Sittwe, Myanmar, into squalid Internal Displaced Persons camps. The camps are about 20 minutes from Sittwe but the Rohingya who live in the camps are not allowed to leave without government permission. The government says the Rohingya are not Burmese citizens, that they are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. The Bangladesh government says the Rohingya are Burmese and the Rohingya insist that they have lived in Burma for generations. They are not allowed to work outside the camps, they are not allowed to go to Sittwe to use the hospital, go to school or do business. The camps have no electricity. Water is delivered through community wells. There are small schools funded by NOGs in the camps and a few private clinics but medical care is costly and not reliable. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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- RohingyaIDPCamps141.jpg
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- © 2014 Jack Kurtz
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- Burma's Rohingya Muslims Confined to IDP Camps, Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis (All), Myanmar / Burma (all)
