Burma y los desplazados

By Jonah Fisher BBC News, Rakhine state, Burma

Seis meses de violencia sectaria arrojan mas de 100,000 personas de sus hogares en Burma occidental.

Six months of sectarian violence has driven more than 100,000 people from their homes in western Burma.

Rakhine Buddhist and Rohingya Muslim communities that have lived separately for generations are now forcibly segregated.

Barriers have been erected across roads in the state capital and thousands of Rakhine have had their homes destroyed.

But its the Rohingya who endure the worst conditions. Rejected as citizens by both Bangladesh and Burma, they continue to be victimised in the camps where they sought shelter.

On Myebon peninsula, south of the Rakhine state capital Sittwe, the double standards are clear.

Once the site of a daring amphibious raid by Allied troops in the Second World War, the peninsula is now home to two very different refugee camps.

Just a mile or so apart, they are populated entirely on ethnic lines - one for displaced Buddhists and the other for the Rohingyas.

Near the centre of town is the smaller of the camps.

On lush grass thirty five tents bearing the logo of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia stand in ordered rows. This is Kan Thar Htwat Wa, home to 400 Buddhists who have been here since clashes in late October.

Phu Ma Gyi 's home was burnt down and, with her two daughters, she now shares a tent with three other families.

"The government is looking after us here," she says. "We have food, medicine and what we need."