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Thursday 14 May 2015 - 13:02 Makkah mean time-25-7-1436
 Myanmar, (IINA) - In the courtyard of a simple mosque bordered by recently dug graves, Muhammad recounts in a low monotone how he lost his daughter in ghetto known as Aung Ming Lar, in Burma.
“She was vomiting and had diarrhea, but I could not take her to the hospital,” he says. “There was no doctor that could visit her, so she died here.” Pormin Vibi was just 18 years old.
Vibi was among about 4,000 Muslims of the Rohingya minority living in what amounts to a ghetto known as Aung Ming Lar, a cramped quarter of Buddhist-dominated Sittwe in Burma’s northwest state of Rakhine, The Guardian reported.
For three years the community has been virtually closed off from the outside world by police checkpoints and barbed wire.
Living under what are described as apartheid-like conditions the UN calls it a “clear case of segregation,” some are allowed to leave under escort just twice a week to access the market where they used to trade.
“If we go there they inject poison to kill us,” says a 14-year-old who calls himself James, sharing the perceived fear of many in the ghetto.
Trapped in such squalor and surrounded by hostility, it is from such places as Aung Ming Lar that tens of thousands of Rohingya have fled, handing their fate to paid traffickers to take them by sea to Thailand and Malaysia.
SM/IINA
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