Myanmar's Plan to 'Close' Rohingya Camps Threatens Deeper Segregation

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6 December 2018 10:16 WIB

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. 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. REUTERS

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A Myanmar policeman stands in a check point outside Rohingya refugee camp in Sittwe, Myanmar March 3, 2017. 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. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun/File Photo

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Rohingya women ride on rickshaws in front of a check point outside a refugee camp in Sittwe in the state of Rakhine, Myanmar March 3, 2017. The government of Aung San Suu Kyi, under international pressure to address their plight, says it is now closing the camps on the grounds that doing so will help development and put the labour of camp residents to good use. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun/File Photo

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Hla Hla Shwe with her baby receives treatment at a clinic at Taungpaw an internally displaced people's camp in Rakhine state, Myanmar, November 19, 2018. Picture taken November 19, 2018. More than a dozen residents from five camps and internal United Nations documents show the move simply means building new, more permanent homes next to the camps - rather than allowing them to return to the areas from which they fled - leaving their situation little changed. REUTERS

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People ride a tricycle at a internally displaced persons camp for Rohingya people outside Sittwe in the state of Rakhine, Myanmar November 15, 2016. Those that have moved into the new accommodation remain under the same severe movement restrictions as before, residents and staff working in the camps say. A network of official checkpoints and threats of violence by local Buddhists prevent Muslims from moving freely in Rakhine. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun/File Photo

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Muslim resident 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. Myanmar's Minister of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Win Myat Aye said the government was working with the United Nations on a national strategy to close camps housing people forced out of their homes by violence in Rakhine and elsewhere, known as internally displaced persons or IDPs. REUTERS

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