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Myanmar govt. restricting aid to Muslims:
Human Rights Watch
Wednesday March 27, 2013 02:45:58 PM,
IANS
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Bangkok:
The Myanmar government is systematically restricting humanitarian
aid and imposing discriminatory policies on Rohingya Muslims,
Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.
The government should permit unfettered access to humanitarian
agencies to provide assistance to Muslim populations, end
segregated areas and put forward a plan for those displaced to
return to their homes.
“Burmese government restrictions on aid to Rohingya Muslims are
creating a humanitarian crisis that will become a disaster when
the rainy season arrives,” said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia
director at Human Rights Watch.
“Instead of addressing the problem, Burma’s leaders seem intent on
keeping the Rohingya segregated in camps rather than planning for
them to return to their homes,” he said.
An ethnic Arakanese campaign of violence and abuses since June
2012 facilitated by and at times involving state security forces
and government officials has displaced more than 125,000 Rohingya
and Kaman Muslims in western Myanmar’s Arakan state.
Tens of thousands of Rohingya still lack adequate humanitarian aid
– leading to an unknown number of preventable deaths – in
isolated, squalid displacement camps.
Government security forces guarding the camps do not permit the
residents to leave the camps, which has a devastating effect on
their livelihoods, Human Rights Watch said.
Several camps housing Rohingya are located in paddy fields and
lowland areas that face heavy flooding during the rainy season,
which will begin in May, yet the authorities have not taken
serious steps to move them to higher ground, it said.
“The government seems untroubled by the dire humanitarian
conditions in the camps in Arakan state but it will be responsible
for the lives unnecessarily lost,” Robertson said.
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