The return to military rule last year has further dimmed hopes for any path to citizenship or easing of current restrictions. Read more at straitstimes.com.
YANGON - After his mother begged him to stay, Mr Maung Soe Naing decided not to join his fellow Rohingya fleeing into Bangladesh to escape a brutal crackdown by Myanmar's military five years ago.He has all but stopped planning for the future, slowly letting his house go to ruin.
Most are denied citizenship and subject to restrictions on movement, their health care and education - treatment that Human Rights Watch has said amounts to"apartheid". A Rakhine friend helped him hide from security forces and wait out the rampaging mobs before he was reunited with his mother a month later.
"Even when MSF patients need emergency care, some are reluctant to go after hearing stories of discrimination and mistreatment Rohingya have endured in the facilities," she said."But at the same time, we can't just leave because they arrest us and stop us from travelling." Muslim-majority Malaysia is often the destination of choice for those trying to leave Myanmar. Many take their chances with traffickers on dangerous journeys over land or on perilous boat trips lasting months over tropical seas.
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