Myanmar, Rakhine State, Sittwe, That Kal Pyin village, Maw Tinyar camp, The camp is one of over 38 Rohingya camps on the perimeter of Sittwe on the western coast of Myanmar. While they take care of the camp, do odd jobs and visit other villages within the barriers, the principal activity for men in the camps revolves around prayer. All of the mosques in Sittwe, one which was over 200 years old, were destroyed by government bulldozers or cordoned off. When asked how they rationalize their situation, one man responds, "Good things are by Allah, bad things are by bad people." General caption; Who will save the Rohingya? The Rohingya Muslim minority is an inconvenient ethnic group for the new government of Myanmar. Burma (Myanmar) has a long history of conflict among its ethnic minorities propagated by an oppressive military junta. While many of the country's 135 ethnic minorities have been subjected to discrimination and human rights violations, only the Rohingya, the Muslim population of Burma's western Rakhine state that borders Bangladesh, have been stripped of all rights including citizenship (1982). They are stateless refugees, now living in IDP camps at the mercy of intolerant Buddhists. In June 2012, a cortege led by radical Buddhist monks, Rakhine Buddhist civilians (discriminated against in their own right and fueled by decades of anti-Muslim sentiment) and police stormed thru Rohingya neighborhoods in the capital of Sittwe slaughtering people, burning homes and mosques. The "conflict" (as it is commonly referred to), well-orchestrated by the government, effectively displaced approximately 140,000 Rohingya forcing them into detention camps on the outskirts of the city. Those villages that were not destroyed have been cordoned off. Today, 4 years later (Oct. 2016), be it in a camp or a village, the Rohingya have no freedom of movement, no access to comprehensive medical care or higher education, and they cannot work. They rely solely on NGOs and their own families living in freedom elsewhere. While the country's historic turn towards democracy should be encouraging, the plight of the Rohingya is far from over and on the ground the prospects for this traumatized minority look rather grim.