Rohingyas in danger, aid groups forced out

A Rohingya woman walks at the Kyein Ni Pyin camp.

Restrictions on international aid have exacerbated a growing health crisis among stateless Muslim Rohingya in west Burma. In February, Burmese government expelled the main aid group providing health to more than half a million Rohingya, Medecins Sans Frontieres-Holland (MSF-H), after the organisation said it had treated people believed to have been victims of violence in southern Maungdaw township in January.

The United Nations says at least 40 Rohingya were killed there by Buddhist Rakhine villagers.

All images taken April 23 - April 24, 2014.

Sittwe, Rakhine state, Burma

Rohingya people receive their share of food aid from the World Food Program (WFP) at the Thae Chaung camp.

The government denies any killings occurred. An attack in March on NGO and U.N. offices by a Rakhine mob led to the withdrawal of other groups providing healthcare and other essential aid to another 140,000 Rohingya living in camps.

Pauk Taw, Rakhine state, Burma

A displaced Rohingya girl at the Kyein Ni Pyin camp.

Sittwe, Rakhine state, Burma

A Rohingya woman shows her baby, who is suffering from a skin infection, at the Thet Kae Pyin camp.

Pauk Taw, Rakhine state, Burma

Gorima Khatu holds the covered body of her three-month-old daughter Asoma Khatu, who just died of fever and diarrhea, in their room at the Kyein Ni Pyin camp.

Pauk Taw, Rakhine state, Burma

The body of three-month-old Asoma Khatu, who just died of fever and diarrhea, is covered with a piece of white cloth at the Kyein Ni Pyin camp.

Sittwe, Rakhine state, Burma

Displaced Rohingya woman Norbagoun carries her severely malnourished 25-day-old twins in her lap in their house at the Dar Paing camp.

Sittwe, Rakhine state, Burma

A boy holds his severely malnourished sibling in his room at the Dar Paing camp.

Sittwe, Rakhine state, Burma

Severely malnourished 25-day-old twins are held by her mother Norbagoun, a displaced Rohingya woman, in their house at the Dar Paing camp.

Sittwe, Rakhine state, Burma

Rohingya women and their children wait to receive treatment at a makeshift clinic in the Thet Kae Pyin camp.

Sittwe, Rakhine state, Burma

Tin Aung Zin, a nine-year-old Rohingya boy in a coma which his mother says was caused by shock during the communal violence in their former neighborhood Nahzi village in Sittwe, lies on the floor inside their new home at a village near the Thet Kae Pyin camp.

Sittwe, Rakhine state, Burma

Muhammad Ali, a 54-year-old Rohingya man suffering from tuberculosis for over a year, lies inside his room at the Thet Kae Pyin camp.

Sittwe, Rakhine state, Burma

Muhammad Alam, who is suffering from a diarrhea for over a week, lies on a mat in front of his room at the Dar Paing camp.

Sittwe, Rakhine state, Burma

Medicine are seen in a pharmacy which also serves as a makeshift clinic at the Thae Chaung camp.

Sittwe, Rakhine state, Burma

Musana Khatu, a 22-month-old Rohingya girl suffering from diarrhea for 13 days, receives treatment after her mother brought her from the Baw Dupa camp.

Sittwe, Rakhine state, Burma

Musana Khatu, a 22-month-old Rohingya girl suffering from diarrhea for 13 days, undergoes examination after her mother brought her from the Baw Dupa camp.

Sittwe, Rakhine state, Burma

A sick Rohingya boy waits to receive medical treatment at a makeshift clinic at the Thet Kae Pyin camp.

Sittwe, Rakhine state, Burma

A Rohingya woman shows her baby to a nurse as another woman is examined by a doctor from the Ministry of Health at a hospital near the Dar Paing camp.

Pauk Taw, Rakhine state, Burma

Rohingya children walk past shelters inside the Kyein Ni Pyin camp.

Sittwe, Rakhine state, Burma

Children play in the fields near the Dar Paing camp.