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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Camps or deportation for Burma's Rohingyas, says president

A Rohingya woman from Burma, who tried to cross the Naf river into Bangladesh to escape sectarian violence, cries while holding her six-day-old baby in a Bangladeshi coast guard station, before being sent back to Burma.

















A Rohingya woman from Burma, who tried to cross the Naf river into Bangladesh to escape sectarian violence, cries while holding her six-day-old baby in a Bangladeshi coast guard station, before being sent back to Burma. 


Burma's president has told the UN that refugee camps or deportation is the solution for nearly a million Rohingya Muslims in the wake of communal unrest in the west of the country.
President Thein Sein said Burma would send the Rohingyas away "if any third country would accept them".
"We will take responsibility for our ethnic people but it is impossible to accept the illegally entered Rohingyas, who are not our ethnicity," he told UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres.
Decades of discrimination have left the Rohingya stateless, with army-dominated Burma implementing restrictions on their movements, and withholding land rights, education and public services, the UN says.
Unwanted in Burma and Bangladesh -- where an estimated 300,000 live -- Rohingya migrants have undertaken dangerous voyages by boat towards Malaysia or Thailand in recent years.
According to UNHCR, around one million Rohingya are now thought to live outside Burma but they have not been welcomed by a third country.
Bangladesh has turned back Rohingya boats arriving on its shores since the outbreak of the unrest.
Ten aid organisation staff, including some from the UN, were detained in Rakhine in the wake of the recent unrest, according to a situation bulletin by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs last week.
Although security forces have quelled the worst of the unrest, tens of thousands of people remain in government-run relief camps with the UN's World Food Program reporting that it has provided food to some 100,000 people.
Both sides have accused each other of violent attacks, which were sparked following the rape and murder of a local Buddhist woman and subsequent revenge attack by a mob of ethnic Rakhines that left 10 Muslims dead on June 3.
A state of emergency is still in force over several areas.
Original from ABC |  13 July 2012