Arakan News Agency
For 56th days, the Rohingya Muslims continues their exodus from Myanmar, even after crossing the sea to safety in Bangladesh, from the violent campaign and killing began on August 28.
Burma’s Independent Human Rights Network, Myanmar’s human rights organization, said systematic persecution of the Rohingya Muslim minority was on the rise across the country, not only in the northwestern state of Arakan.
The organization said in a report that the persecution is supported by the government, and the country’s Buddhist monks and nationalists civic groups, stressing that many Muslims from all ethnicities were denied national identity cards, while access to places of prayer for Muslims in some places were also denied.
The report, based on more than 350 interviews with people in more than 46 towns and villages over a period of 8 months since March 2016, said that at least 21 villages throughout Myanmar declared themselves “forbidden entry areas for Muslims”, the authorities.
