GENOCIDE IN MYANMAR

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COUNTDOWN TO ANNIHILATION: GENOCIDE IN MYANMAR non-food items by around 20%. The same week, July 2015, the State-run newspaper Global New Light of Myanmar ran an article with the headline: ‘Excess relief goods sold at stalls in Rakhine: sources’. The article claimed that an oversupply of relief goods had been provided by international organisations who were relying on numbers submitted by camp committees due to difficulties associated with counting the refugees. 270 ISCI interviews provided a very different picture. Rohingya consistently reported to us that food aid was arriving up to three weeks late, and that people would go hungry or borrow from others based on the expectation of the arrival of the food at some future stage. Reported food delays were denied by the WFP in discussion with ISCI. The reports, however, were numerous, consistent and corroborated by many Rohingya in different geographical areas. In an isolated Rohingya host village in Mrauk U, in January 2015, ISCI was told: We’ve had no WFP deliveries since December [2014]. Two hundred households get rations from the WFP, their houses were burned. Five hundred others don’t have the right to food. … Some of the people receiving rations live in the IDP camps and some in the village … We don’t have enough food … Before we could buy food and work as fishermen and in Rakhine villages, but now we have no freedom. There are no fish in the river. We cannot go far down the river because of the aggression. 271 Interviews in a range of camps revealed that Rohingya did sell rice and other forms of aid at market because it was the only means by which they could secure the money to purchase fresh vegetables and other necessities not provided by aid organisations. The food provided by the WFP – oil, rice, chickpeas, salt – is not only insufficient, it is also devoid of major vitamins and minerals. 270 ‘Excess relief goods sold at stalls in Rakhine: sources’, The Global New Light of Myanmar, 16 July 2015: http://globalnewlightofmyanmar.com/excess-relief-goods-sold-at-stalls-in-rakhine-sources/. Accessed 10 October 2015. 271 Interview with Rohingya village administrator, Mrauk U, 27 January 2015. 96
6. SYSTEMATIC WEAKENING Loss of livelihood Cow dung being dried for fuel, inside Rohingya IDP camp, Sittwe ISCI heard many accounts of how Rohingya livelihoods had been lost or destroyed. Rohingya villagers reported that since the 2012 violence virtually all opportunities to work had been removed: • All businesses are lost, our position are lost. If the Rakhine are indebted to us they don’t have to pay back, but the Rakhine come to the village to collect debt. 272 • We are powerless. This used to be a rich village, there were doctors here. We are poor, we have no education and business, we are nothing. 273 Inside the Rohingya camps the only ‘gainful’ activity observed was the collection and drying of cow dung for fuel, which was mainly done by children who have no schools to go to. Some Rohingya have been employed as casual labourers to build the new, vast police barracks and the new parliament buildings being constructed on the outskirts of Sittwe, while others can engage in limited fishing activities. However, the vast majority of Rohingya have absolutely no opportunity to earn money and rely on the charity of a stifled international community and a government interested only in their ultimate removal. 272 Interview with Rohingya man Mrauk U 27 January 2015. 273 Interview with Rohingya elder Mrauk U 27 January 2015. 97
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