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Daily life in Southern Rakhine IDP Camps

A woman describes the situation within the camps to be dire. She says her family is barely surviving on little food provided by humanitarian organizations working within the camps. She has been diagnosed with an illness of the blood, which has disabled her completely. She reveals there are no good doctors available, and pharmacies do not understand how to treat illness. She says a healthy life is more valuable, and as she is ill and immobilized, she is of no value to her community or family. She reveals she does not want to stay in the camps where her family is suffering, and if she cannot go back to Aung Mingalar, she would like to find refuge in another country. Instead, people are trapped within the camps, denied food or medical care. The visuals shows the inhumane living conditions inflicted on of the Rohingya Muslim minority by the militarized Rakhine State. In 2012, many Rohingya were forced to relocate to displacement camps after the Rakhine people burned their villages to ash. Since then, the Rohingya are no longer recognized as Burmese citizens. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya are barely surviving on scant government food rations, all but nonexistent access to healthcare, dilapidated housing shelters, and the perpetual fear of renewed attacks on their communities. Most now live in horrific conditions in the displacement camps with no government or NGO assistance. (Photo by Jade Sacker/NurPhoto)

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