The Muslim Rohingya people of Burma’s Arakan state are in an impossible situation. They are wanted neither in Burma nor in neighboring Bangladesh.
The flight of the Rohingya from Burma is the direct result of Burmese government policies, which deny them citizenship under the 1982 Citizenship Law, limit their religious practice, facilitate land confiscations for army camps or settlement by Buddhist settlers and prohibit them from leaving their villages to access markets, employment, education and medical care. Unlike the Buddhist Rakhine who also live in Arakan state, or the ethnically dominant Burmans, the Rohingya must pay a large fee in order for their daughters to be married and to register their newborns. more>>>
