Internment fears as Myanmar plans new camps for scattered Rohingya
Source: IRIN
Country: Bangladesh, Myanmar
The proposal worries rights groups, given the precedent further south along the coast, where 121,000 people, mostly Rohingya, are confined in squalid, overcrowded government camps.
By Laignee Barron
Myanmar plans to open new displacement camps for Rohingya in violence-ridden Rakhine State, sparking fears that members of the Muslim minority not already driven out of the country will instead be forcibly interned.
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