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Daily life in Southern Rakhine IDP Camps

Two men walk along the desecrated train tracks that once connected the villages of Kone Doke Khar. Since the violence of 2012, they are no longer permitted to run for fear of unifying Rohingya communities, enabling them to fight back against the Rakhine police who enforce their internment. 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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