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A Rohingya girl carries water to her tent at an IDP (internally displaced peoples) camp on the outskirts of Sittwe, Myanmar, Nov. 24, 2012.
Paula Bronstein, Getty Images — In Myanmar an estimated 111,000 people were displaced by sectarian violence in June and October. The violence affected mostly the ethnic Rohingya people who now live in crowded IDP camps racially segregated from the Rakhine Buddhists in order to maintain stability. Around 89 lives were lost during a week of violence in October, the worst in decades. As of 2012, 800,000 Rohingya live in Myanmar. The Rohingya are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world, according to the United Nations.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Images made available to NBC News on Nov. 27
Kyaw Tin examines a woman named Mumtaz at a government-run medical clinic on the outskirts of Sittwe, Myanmar, Nov. 25. Mumtaz was later taken to a local hospital.
A pregnant woman suffers from labor pains as foreign medical teams try to assist Rohingya in need at a makeshift medical clinic on the outskirts of Sittwe, Myanmar, Nov. 25.
A worker builds new housing aimed at offering the Rohingya an alternative to tented IDP (internally displaced peoples) camps on the outskirts of Sittwe, Myanmar, Nov. 25.
Aaisha sits with her 11-month-old baby Bibi at an IDP (internally displaced persons) camp on the outskirts of Sittwe, Myanmar, Nov. 23.
Rohingya pray inside a makeshift mosque during Friday prayer at an IDP (internally displaced peoples) camp on the outskirts of Sittwe, Myanmar, Nov. 23.
Gulzar looks out from her tent at a crowded IDP (internally displaced peoples) camp on the outskirts of Sittwe, Myanmar, Nov. 25.
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What is the big deal about Rohingyas? These Rohingyas are Muslims first and Burmese last like in other non-Muslim nations.
There are Afghan refugees in Pakistan, Syrians in Turkey, Paki minority tribes ones in Pakistan itself and the list is endless due to primarily Sunni Islamic religious madness. Why are there not much media blasts on some of them?
UN and its agencies, New York-based Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, media and some more are highly partisan.
They can look only in the directions pointed out by Sunni Saudis, oil companies, Jewish lobbys, Christian rights and lobbyists!
When genocides of Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and other non-Islamic religions go on, they miss them.
How many media blasts likes these have been done in Darfur, Sudan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Philippines and other places, where killings or genocides of non-Muslims have been going on?
We see Muslims inventing problems in most of the non-Muslim nations and many Muslim nations.
Even in the US, we can notice these actions!
9/11, one of the biggest terrorist attack in the human history, is due to Saudis, Pakis and UAE funding.
In the US, one Muslim from Bangladesh wanted to blow up Fed Reserve. He had come for studies and was hardly twenty! As per his family: "he is pious and he wanted to study."
One Saudi student wanted to do his jihad in the US chemical weapons. Many Pakis have been planning all sorts of terror attacks right in the US.
When Muslims form more than five percent, downhill march starts.
Muslims are inventing problems in Myanmar, Thailand, Philippines, India and other places.
When they form more than 30 percent then it is Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, Lebanon (few decades back)
In Muslim majority nations, they are doing genocides of minority Islamic sects like Shiites, Sufis, Ahmedias and other minority tribes.
In 47, the current Bangladesh portion had about 40 percent of Hindus, Buddhists, Christians and other minorities. Right now there are hardly ten of them remaining.
After ruining their Bangladesh, like Muslims from other nations, they have sneaked into India, Burma and other Asian non-Muslim nations.
India itself has about 30 million illegal Bangladesh Muslims. These Muslims are back to Muslim business of square one: raping, stealing, looting, rioting and killing! As they form a big voting block, some parties support them!!! Govt is scarred to touch them!
Similar things are going on in UK, France and many European nations.
If Saudi Arabia and many Muslim nations do not permit non-Islamic religious places and scriptures, Muslims have no right to have their mosques, hate preaching and killer training centers, in non-Muslim nations.
If non-Muslims can’t live in peace in Muslim nations, Muslims don’t have any right to live in our nations.