By Matt Rains & Alia Mehboob
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| A Rohingya boy walks by a trishaw in Paungdok, Arakan state (Lux Capio Photography) |
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| A Rohingya girl sits in front of a house in Paungdok, Arakan state (Lux Capio Photography) |
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| A local imam in Paungdok, Arakan state (Lux Capio Photography) |
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| Old Burmese scripts and religious texts were destroyed during Buddhist-Muslim riots in Sittwe (Lux Capio Photography) |
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Anti-Rohingya messages flash ahead of a movie screening in Mrauk-U, Arakan state (Lux Capio Photography)
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| Thousands of Rohingya Muslims have been fenced into Sittwe's Muslim quarter, Aung Mingalar, since June 2012 (Lux Capio Photography) |
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| A Rohingya man holds up a sign in Sittwe's Aung Mingalar (Lux Capio Photography) |
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| Local Rohingyas stand on a dirt road in Aung Mingalar, Sittwe (Lux Capio Photography) |
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| Small fishing villages in Sittwe were reduced to rubbish in June’s clashes (Lux Capio Photography) |
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| A novice monk peers out from behind a pillar in the Buddhist quarters of Sittwe, Arakan state (Lux Capio Photography) |
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| A lone man walks along Sittwe beach, Arakan state (Lux Capio Photography) |
Burma’s Rohingya Muslims have been described as the world’s forgotten people. Stripped of citizenship by the former military junta in 1982, many thousands have been stuck in limbo along the Bangladeshi border in northwestern Burma for decades.
Last year two bouts of vicious communal clashes thrust an international spotlight on their plight. Over 200 people were killed and some 140,000 people, mostly Muslims, were ripped from their homes. Displaced Rohingyas, who are considered illegal Bengali immigrants in Burma, are now isolated in dreary camps and ghettoes, with limited access to food, sanitation or healthcare. Buddhist nationalists and extremist groups have been blamed for stirring up hate-speech against the group, while local police and security forces have been accused of participating in the violence, described by human rights groups as a “systematic” campaign of ethnic cleansing.
Journalists Matt Rains and Alia Mehboob travelled to Arakan state in August 2012 to document the lives of Rohingya Muslims in the wake of last year’s violence.
