Efter sidste uges voldelige og dødelige aktioner mod Rohingya muslimerne i Burmas vestlige delstat Rakhine anmoder rettighedsforkæmper nu internationale observatører om hjælp.
BANGKOK, 30 October 2012 (IRIN): “We are begging international observers to come and witness what is actually happening – to stop the violence and attacks on innocent civilians,” Mohammad Nawsim, secretary of the Rohingya Human Rights Association based in Bangkok, told IRIN Wednesday.
The Rohingya, a persecuted (forfulgt, red.) Muslim minority of 800.000, unrecognized as citizens by the Burmese government, have long faced persecution and discrimination in Burma.
His call comes one week after serious clashes, the second in less than five months, erupted (udbrød) between Muslim Rohingya and ethnic (mainly Buddhist) Rakhine across eight Rakhine townships (Kyaukpyu, Kyauktaw, Minbya, Mrauk-U, Myebon, Pauktaw, Ramree and Rathedaung) on 21 October.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), more than 28.000 residents were displaced, more than 4.600 homes and religious buildings destroyed, and at least 76 people killed.
These figures do not include several thousand people who have fled their houses by sea, nor those who have arrived in Sittwe (the Rakhine State capital) since 21 October, OCHA said.
100.000 i lejre
The latest displacement follows a major outbreak of communal violence in June after the alleged (påstået, red.) rape of a Rakhine woman by a group of Muslim men in May, which left some 75.000, mostly Rohingya residents, displaced, the vast majority in nine overcrowded IDP (Internationl Displaced Persons, red.) camps in Sittwe.
The latest unrest brings the number of displaced now in camps in Rakhine to more than 100.000, putting a further strain on ongoing assistance by the government, the UN, and its partners on the ground.
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