Why Aung San Suu Kyi is always silent about this issue? Being a Buddhist does she find this ethnic violence ok? For the Buddhists who dominate the Rakhine capital, Sittwe, it is even easier. Their buses, rickshaws and motorbikes just get waved through by the police. Many even use the main road as a short cut just to reach another part of town. But for the 4,000 Muslim Rohingya who live inside are effectively prisoners - restricted first by the police checkpoints and then by the Rakhine Buddhist community that surrounds them on all sides and constantly looks on. Cut off from the outside world, it is now a miserable open-air prison. It is thought that about 800,000 of them live in Rakhine state, their movements and rights heavily restricted. On Wednesdays and Sundays, six Rohingya pay 20,000 kyat ($20, £12) each in return for a security escort from the police. The residents of Aung Mingalar had no access to doctors or healthcare except MSF. That has now stopped after a well-organised campaign by Buddhist groups led to the government suspending MSF across Rakhine state. bbc/news/world-asia-26452892
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 06:56:16 +0000
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