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Tuesday 02 Jun 2015 - 11:55 Makkah mean time-15-8-1436
 Myanmar, (IINA) - Hollywood celebrity actor Matt Dillon became the first celebrity to put a spotlight on the plight of Burma's long-persecuted Rohingya Muslims, paying a visit to a hot camp for tens of thousands of Rohingyas displaced by violence.
It was "heartbreaking," Dillon said after meeting a young man with a raw, open leg wound from a road accident and no means to treat it, Associated Press (AP) reported.
"No one should have to live like this, people are really suffering," said Dillon, one of the first celebrities to get a look at what life is like for Rohingyas in the western state of Rakhine.
"They are being strangled slowly, they have no hope for the future and nowhere to go."
"It feels more like people are going to be left to wither away and die."
"A lot of people are suffering," Dillon said.
"I'm really glad I had a chance to come, to see for myself what's happening here."
In the past few weeks, about 3,100 Rohingya refugees fled Burma and Bangladeshi to land in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.
According to an estimate by International Organization for Migration (IOM), about 8,000 boatpeople are still adrift in Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea, where they are running dangerously low on food and water.
SM/IINA
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