ASANKA BRENDON RATNAYAKE

Stateless Rohingya in Sittwe IDP Camps

SITTWE , MYANMAR - JULY 18 : A boy writes "I love you" on his sisters arm during Eid-Al-Fitr inside the IDP camps in Sittwe. An estimated 110,000 ethnic Rohingya live in an overcrowded IDP camp in the outskirts of Sittwe. The Rohingya continually make attempts to flee the camps by fishing boat and seek asylum in neighbouring Islamic countries however often fall victim to human traffickers. At current they are a stateless people believed to be illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. According to the UN the Rohingya are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Sittwe, Rakhine State Myanmar on July 18 2015.

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SITTWE , MYANMAR - JULY 18 : A boy writes "I love you" on his sisters arm during Eid-Al-Fitr inside the IDP camps in Sittwe. An estimated 110,000 ethnic Rohingya live in an overcrowded IDP camp in the outskirts of Sittwe. The Rohingya continually make attempts to flee the camps by fishing boat and seek asylum in neighbouring Islamic countries however often fall victim to human traffickers. At current they are a stateless people believed to be illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. According to the UN the Rohingya are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Sittwe, Rakhine State Myanmar on July 18 2015.