‘Myanmar Muslims face health crisis’

May 2nd, 2014

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Human rights activists and international medical groups have warned of a deteriorating health crisis for Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims.

On an almost daily basis, media reports confirm fatalities among Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims, with many of them living under apartheid-like conditions on the outskirts of Sittwe, the capital city of Rakhine state.

A great number of victims are pregnant women, and those who manage to survive are left without help, particularly after foreign aid workers were ordered to leave the country in February.

Before Doctors Without Borders (MSF) was expelled from Rakhine, pregnant women had made up a quarter of the group’s emergency referrals.

This is while, those who do manage to receive medical care face long lines with each person getting only a few minutes of attention.

The government has pledged to allow most NGOs to return but so far only food distribution by the World Food Program has resumed.

Reports say hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar are suffering from severe shortage of food and drinking water. Humanitarian aid deliveries have slowed down in Rakhine as a result of an escalation in sectarian violence.

Hundreds of people – most of them Rohingyas – have been killed in Myanmar since the outbreak of sectarian violence back in 2012.

According to the UN, the Rohingya Muslims are one of the world’s most persecuted communities.

The Myanmar government has been repeatedly criticized by human rights groups for failing to protect the Muslims.

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