Myanmar Citizens Take Shelter During The Violence In Rakhine State

SITTWE, BURMA - NOVEMBER 03: Rakhine Buddhists stand outside their homes in the Satroja IDP camp on November 3, 2017 in Sittwe, Myanmar. A segment of the Rakhine Buddhist population was effected during the 2012 violence against the Rohingya population and has been living in IDP camps since. The camps have become a permanent village and Rakhine Buddhists have no hope of returing to their land. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel laureate who leads Myanmar’s civilian government, visited conflict-battered northern Rakhine state for the first time on Thursday since the outbreak of violence in late August. Based on reports, hundreds of Rohingya Muslims have been killed by the military when the atrocities began while Hindus and Buddhist have also fled the violence in Rakhine state and moved to Buddhist-majority areas, fearing to face the violence again. Burmese immigration officials have since begun reissuing citizenship identification cards to Hindu and Buddhist citizens who fled their homes without carrying their identification cards while the Hindu and Buddhist communities continue to seek safety in Sittwe until the crisis is over. Over 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have crossed over into Bangladesh as international rights groups laid out evidence of an ethnic cleansing campaign across the northern part of Rakhine state. (Photo by Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images)