Today tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims live in internment camps along Myanmar’s west coast. Despite being the first settler to the land and generations of history in the country’s Rakhine State, members of this minority are referred to as “Bengalis” by the Buddhist majority, who regard them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
When ethnic cleansing pogroms broke out in June 2012, killing probably hundreds and displacing tens of thousands, security forces removed Rohingya to camps encircling Rahkine’s state capital, Sittwe, supposedly for their own safety.
Instead, nearly four years later, they suffer from chronic malnutrition, receive minimal medical care and are forbidden to travel freely outside the camps — let alone return home.
Here is an article which provides their status.
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