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The Rohingya Issue

A commission led by former U.N. chief Kofi Annan is in Burma for six days looking into the Rohingya issue, with the aims of addressing human rights. Hopefully this commission is able to highlight the human rights abuses and that this move represents a change in Aung San Suu Kyi's government towards the Rohingya issue.

Annan is a member of an independent commission set up last month by State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi's government to help find solutions to a communal conflict in the western state of Rakhine that has seen widespread abuses and violence by Buddhists against Rohingya.

Many Buddhists in Rakhine and across Myanmar consider Rohingya to be Bangladeshis living in the country illegally, though the ethnic group has been in Myanmar for generations. Hundreds of Rohingya were killed and tens of thousands forced to flee their homes in 2012 unrest in Rakhine state, and many continue to be confined to squalid camps there.

Annan on Wednesday visited the Rohingya community in the Aung Mingalar quarter of Sittwe, where Muslims are kept in a gated area and not allowed to go outside. Annan later visited Rakhine and Rohingya camps in Thetkabyin village outside of Sittwe. More than 100,000 people in Rakhine state live in displacement camps, the majority of them Rohingya who were forced to flee their homes after the 2012 rioting

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3777717/Myanmars-Rohingya-minority-welcomes-Kofi-Annan-mission.html