Suu Kyi should be ashamed of the Rohingya condition


Pauline Latham is an MP from UK. Excerpts of her article summarizing her recent trip to Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh where she met with Rohingya refugees is shared below.
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They have escaped genocide but now they face being swept away by floods – for the tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees, life is heartbreakingly cheap.
And even if they survive the monsoons and cyclones, women, whose husbands have already been slaughtered, will be preparing to give birth to children conceived by the rape of the Burmese military.
The plight of the Rohingya is like nothing on Earth.
They are a people who have been dehumanised – they have seen their children literally thrown on to fires.
Already traumatised by having to flee Burma, or Myanmar as it is known now, into neighbouring Bangladesh, their desperate existence is set to become even more atrocious as annual rains hit their makeshift camps.
The ground on which their rickety structures have been erected is prone to landslides. So, even if their makeshift homes remain standing, poorly built latrines are bound to be washed away, meaning the inevitable spread of disease.
As a member of the House of Commons International Development Committee, I visited a refugee camp in Bangladesh and was shattered by what I saw.
It is estimated that, since August last year, more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh to escape a military crackdown in neighbouring Myanmar.
The refugees arrived in Bangladesh with very few possessions, having spent most of their savings on transportation, and their shelters consist of little more than bamboo and thin plastic.

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