An Arakan man holds homemade weapons in front of a house that was burned during fighting between Arakan Buddhist and Rohingya Muslim (and non-Rohingya Muslim) communities in Sittwe on June 10, 2012.
Burmese security forces committed killings, rape, and mass arrests against Rohingya Muslims after failing to protect both them and Arakan Buddhists during deadly sectarian violence in western Burma in June 2012. Government restrictions on humanitarian access to the Rohingya community have left many of the over 100,000 people displaced and in dire need of food, shelter, and medical care.
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