Tens of thousands of people have been living in sprawling, squalid displacement camps in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State since violence between Buddhist Rakhines and stateless Rohingya Muslims broke out in June 2012.
By the time the embers had cooled from a second bout of violence in October that year, around 146,000 people, the huge majority of them Muslims, had been forced out of their homes and into temporary camps.
Two years on, they are still there.
Aid agencies are warning that their rapidly deteriorating living conditions could become still worse when the monsoon season arrives, flooded and wrecked homes and waterborne diseases being just two of many imminent threats.
