Page 77 - Beautiful Rohingyas

Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya) 75

yanmar, also known to many as Burma, is a small
country in a far corner of our world. With its
676,578 sq. km area and a population of 56 million,

Myanmar is one of those countries where human
rights violations have gone to an extreme.
Mainly consisting of a Buddhist majority, Myanmar

embraced democracy out of a military regime four years ago. How-
ever, because of the policies of oppression and violence by the gov-
ernment, the Muslim Rohingya are fleeing from Arakan (Rakhine)
state in the west of the country. In fact, people acknowledge that the
Rohingya are one of the most persecuted communities in the world.
According to statistics from the end of 2014, it was made evident that
280 Muslims have lost their lives in religiously based conflicts, and

some 140,000 thousand have been displaced. These people unwanted
in their own homeland are not recognized as citizens of Burma, and
therefore they do not possess the right to education, health services,
marriage or travel. For that reason about 1,300,000 Muslim Rohingya
are trying to persist in living close to Sittwe, the capital of the state of
Rakhine, in appalling conditions, scrappy and miserable camps. Chil-
dren born and living in these camps have to struggle against a multi-
tude of issues without even having lived through their springtime of
their life.

In the 12 camps built from bamboo and cane, the children of

Arakan are living in hunger, thirst and on the whole ailing through all
kinds of diseases and undergoing days of affliction in harsh circum-