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subjected to arbitrary arrests, extortion, forced labor, rape, discrimi-
natory restriction in employment, eviction, arbitrary taxes and vio-
lence. These unwanted people are not accepted as citizens of Burma,
and therefore stripped of citizenship rights such as education, health-
care services, the right to marry and the right to travel, and to top it
all off the NGO organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the pri-
mary supplier of medical care is now officially banned in Rakhine
state, where mostly Rohingya people live. With the aid workers gone,
now they have little to no health care and the situation is deteriorat-
ing with each passing day as we hear news of malnutrition, starvation
and disease rising in villages and camps in Rakhine.
Danger of increasing racism and Buddhist radicalism in
Myanmar
Ethnic conflicts in Myanmar have risen to an alarming level
with systematic killings and the worst suffering of its Muslim
The house of a colonialist British
merchant in Yangon, dating back to
19th Century