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"The Rohingya are set by the reckless actions of the authorities of Myanmar and Bangladesh. Fleeing collective punishment in Myanmar under pressure, which are repelled by the Bangladeshi authorities. Caught between these cruel locations, not driven urgent need for food, water and medical care, "Champa Patel, director of South Asia at Amnesty international said.
Rohingyas a policy of collective punishment, in Rakhine State, northern Myanmar, where the security forces attacks in retaliation blind response to aggression, October 9, three border posts that killed nine members of the police flee rise limits.
Speaking to the Rohingya community members on the ground in Bangladesh and interviews with those who are still in Myanmar, Amnesty International has led the army accounts of the Myanmar security forces heard gunships drag villagers burn hundreds of homes, the realization of arbitrary detention and rape of women and girls.
By Naf River dividing Bangladesh and Myanmar, the Rohingya refugees and asylum seekers are forced to hide and suffer from a severe lack of food and medical care, Amnesty International found in the district of Cox Bazar in Bangladesh.
transmission
The Bangladeshi authorities have cracked on the flow of Rohingya refugees and asylum seekers from Myanmar. During the last week arrested the border guards of Bangladesh and pushed hundreds.
The measure is a breach of the principle of non-refoulement - the absolute prohibition under international law to force return of persons to a country or a place where they would be at real risk of serious human rights.
The Bangladeshi authorities have sealed the border with Myanmar and amplified with the use of border guards of Bangladesh and the forces of the Coast Guard. Since 1992, the Government of Bangladesh a policy of denial of the condition of the Rohingya refugees.
On 22 November, Amnesty International has seen Rohingya groups crossing the border near Whaikyang, a village on the river Naf Bangladesh. They looked tired and haggard, signs of a tiring journey obvious on their faces.
They told Amnesty International that Bangladesh had come the day, waiting for a nearby island until morning to escape the Bangladeshi authorities.
Thousands of Rohingya refugees and asylum seekers are believed to have recently exceeded Bangladesh border. Which extend along our villages, refugee camps and slums, so the actual number can not be determined. At least 2,000 people have been through the Naf River 21 Thu November traveling with more to come in the next few days.
Some of them told Amnesty International that they had paid smugglers anywhere. Others confessed to the border guards of Bangladesh and other Bangladeshi bribe at the border to help prevent interception.
"The government of Bangladesh must not increase the suffering of the Rohingya. They must be recognized and protected as refugees fleeing from persecution, not punished for what they are," Champa Patel said.
inhuman and degrading conditions
have sought refuge in makeshift camps by Bazar Cox where previous waves of refugees and asylum seekers installed most Rohingya who successfully Bangladesh has sought.
Water and food are scarce. Aid workers in the region have informed Amnesty International that even before the latest arrivals, the camp residents were already suffering from severe malnutrition.
The latest versions have put an enormous pressure on the Rohingya refugees and asylum seekers based in Bangladesh, which have opened their narrow houses with them.
A man in makeshift refugee camps live Kutupalong told Amnesty International:
"I am the only breadwinner in my family. We are seven people, but some family members came from Myanmar last week, we are now 15 people live in the same small house. Today we had morning nothing to eat. I was only two Longyis [traditional clothing] - gave me my cousin, I'm wearing the only clothes I own. "
they had fled to Bangladesh at 40, a woman who said, after the Myanmar military her husband and a son killed, not been able to find refuge in the camp for her and her two small children.
"We are sleeping outside in the mud," he said. "My son is two years old and is crying all the time, which is very cold in the morning. However, compared with Myanmar, Bangladesh, the sky seems to me."
Many who come are in poor health and needs medical care. Reliable sources confirmed to Amnesty International that several people crossed border with violations of untreated ball. But the Rohingya, said he did not have to seek medical care for the few clinics in the region, for fear of arrest and deportation.
While many people of Bangladesh welcomed and offered help for newcomers, the Rohingya are prey for local thieves.
"When we crossed the border, attacked some local and looted us. They took everything we had," said a 16-year-old, the smuggler paid to take him to Bangladesh on 21 November.
"Based on the generosity of people in Bangladesh and poverty and long-term refugees are unsustainable. The thousands of people who have crossed the border need urgent help. The Bangladeshi authorities to allow groups help immediately unrestricted access to those fleeing persecution in Burma climbing "Champa Patel said.
Collective punishment in Rakhine State
Since the October 9 attack on border police posts, other Amnesty International rights organizations and has received reports of a litany of human rights violations by the army of Myanmar committed northern Rakhine State during security operations. The UN estimates that 30,000 people have been displaced from their homes.
"Attacking the reaction of the army by the security forces, there are six weeks was also about what is necessary and proportionate. To investigate and establish concrete suspects, the army leads the collective punishment of up operations instead" Champa said Patel.
"The individuals clearly not involved in these attacks, whole families and entire villages targeting appear, these operations are targeted Rohingya together on the basis of ethnic origin and religion."
The Myanmar government has denied its forces all allegations of violations of human rights, but also blocks access to humanitarian aid and banned journalists and human rights effectively independent observers enter the area.
"The Myanmar government statements credibility is missing. If you have nothing to hide, it should open access to independent observers, including observers of human rights, humanitarian workers and journalists," Champa Patel said.
The members of the Rohingya community, both described in Bangladesh and Myanmar in detail ribs actions of the military Myanmar, including arbitrary arrests, unlawful killings and the burning of villages.
"These and other human rights violations accounts really should be immediately investigated by an impartial and independent efficiently. The only real solution for both short and long term is for rights regarding the Rohingya in Myanmar. In the long term, systemic and rooted discrimination against the Rohingya must stop. "
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A Rohingya villagers in Myanmar told Amnesty International that the security forces approached their village, fire guns in the air to create a panic situation. "Then they shot at people fleeing the village surrounded and began going from house to house they were abusing people verbally threatened to rape the women, saying:.." We their wives raped Kalar ".
"Kalar" or "alien" an epithet races against the Rohingya community is used.
A woman who spoke to Amnesty International Myanmar described how his two son were arbitrarily arrested by the security forces: "It was early morning, the army surrounded the house, while some came and I and my children are forced to leave the road it. my children both bound. they tied his hands behind his back, and were severely beaten. kicked soldiers in the chest. I saw it myself. I was crying so hard. When I cried, they [the military] they have a weapon the military they have asked hit. My children. they were beaten for about 30 minutes before being caught. "
She has not seen or heard since of them.
At 38, who spoke after arriving from Amnesty International in Bangladesh on 22 November, said. "My sister and brother were kidnapped both seen by the army with my own eyes how the soldiers burned our people and how soldiers raped women and girls . "
A 44-year-old said he saw the army arrested and handcuffed, the youth in his village, shot and pushed into mass graves. She also said that the army rocket launchers used portable, echo reports from several witnesses about the use of these weapons and actions.
Another man, aged 58, Amnesty International reported in Bangladesh fled across the border by helicopter gunships fired their villages and their surroundings: "We saw the fire on the village of helicopters we are to save our lives in the forest.".
Background: Rohingya in Bangladesh
Rohingya refugees and asylum seekers arrived in Bangladesh from Myanmar in waves since at least the 1970s, there are about 33,000 registered Rohingya refugees in two camps Bazar, Kutupalong and Nayapara Cox.
The Bangladeshi government has since 1992 refused to grant refugee status arrival Rohingya in Myanmar. An estimated 300.000 to 500.000 Rohingyas living in Bangladesh, divided into two makeshift camps near Kutupalong and Leda and undocumented cities of the Southeast.
Without legal protection, undocumented Rohingyas are extremely vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. limited employment opportunities means that many earn in drug trafficking or trafficking incomes are forced. The incidents of rape and other forms of sexual violence against Rohingya undocumented women are often because they "soft targets" to be considered that report arrested any crimes for fear of the police themselves.
The Government of Bangladesh has taken a census of unregistered Rohingya recently, but has not published the results. The government says the count will lead to improved access to services and to provide the basic legal status of undocumented Rohingya.
