Inside Myanmar's Rohingya camps: What it looks like to be a refugee in your own country (PHOTOS)
Today tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims live in internment camps along Myanmar’s west coast. Despite generations of history in the country’s Rakhine State, members of the minority are referred to as “Bengalis” by the Buddhist majority, who regard them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
When sectarian riots broke out in June 2012, killing scores and displacing 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.
These photos were taken in several internally displaced person (IDP) camps outside Sittwe in January 2016.
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