'We can't go anywhere' - Myanmar closes Rohingya camps but 'entrenches segregation'


  • World
  • Thursday, 06 Dec 2018

Muslim residents at Taungpaw an internally displaced people's camp walk through the flood to reach the new house built by the Myanmar government in central Rakhine, Myanmar, June 14, 2018. REUTERS/ Stringer

YANGON (Reuters) - As the world was focused on abortive efforts to begin repatriating hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to Myanmar last month, hundreds of their fellow Muslims still in Myanmar were boarding boats seeking to escape the country.

Their attempted flight cast the spotlight back on 128,000 Rohingya and other displaced Muslims still living in crowded camps in Myanmar's western state of Rakhine, six years after Buddhist mobs razed most of their homes.

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