PHOTOS: For Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims, infant mortality soars
July 8, 2014
In this June 27, 2014 photo, 31-year old Yusuf carries the corpse of his niece through a flooded street of a squalid camp for Rohingya refugees in north of Sittwe, Rakhine state, Myanmar. Around 140,000 people have been displaced by sectarian violence in Myanmar's western state of Rakhine in the last three years, most of them members of the long-persecuted Muslim minority hunted down by knife-wielding Buddhist mobs. Residents in the camp come out of their bamboo shacks to watch the lonely procession to the burial ground. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe) ( Myanmar A Brief Life Photo Essay )
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In this June 27 2014 photo, Shamshu Nahad's baby girl is prepared for burial just hours after she was born, a tiny victim of the humanitarian crisis gripping the Rohingya Muslim community in north of Sittwe, Rakhine state, Myanmar. The midwife, Begum, bottom left, and grandmother Hasina, top left, washed the tiny corpse with warm water and then swaddle it in a soft, white clothe. The mother lies in another corner of the sparse, bamboo shack, still bleeding from complications during delivery. She says that pain is nothing compared to her grief. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe) ( Myanmar A Brief Life Photo Essay )
In this June 27, 2014 photo, Shamshu Nahad, left, lies on the floor, bleeding profusely after enduring complications during child birth in Dar Paing, a camp for Rohingya Muslims in north of Sittwe, Rakhine state, Myanmar. The corpse of her tiny daughter, who died hours after the delivery, is covered with a white cloth, far middle. Her 25-year-old's husband Mohammed Shafiq, right, her son Mohammed Rohim, second from right, and mother Hasina, second from left, sit along the wall of the familiesí makeshift bamboo hut in a camp for Rohingya refugees who were displaced during Buddhist-led violence in 2012. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe) ( Myanmar A Brief Life Photo Essay )
In this June 27, 2014 photo, tears roll down the face of Shamshu Nahad after she learned that her newly born daughter has died in Dar Paing, a camp for Rohingya Muslims in north of Sittwe, Rakhine state, Myanmar. Living under apartheid-like conditions, she and other residents have little or no access to life-saving medical care, food, clean water, or jobs. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe) ( Myanmar A Brief Life Photo Essay )
In this June 27, 2014 photo, the hands of Hasina reach down to hold her grand daughter's tiny corpse in Dar Paing, a camp for Rohingya refugees in north of Sittwe, Rakhine state, Myanmar. The baby girl died and was buried just hours after she was born, another victim of a humanitarian crisis that is gripping western Myanmar. The family is among 140,000 Rohingya Muslims living in camps outside of Sittwe after rampaging Buddhist mobs chased them from their homes in 2012. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe) ( Myanmar A Brief Life Photo Essay )
In this June 27, 2014 photo, Hasina Begum sits next to the tiny corpse of her granddaughter, who died just four hours after she was born in squalid camp for victims of sectarian violence in north of Sittwe, Rakhine state, Myanmar. The body was washed with warm water and then wrapped in clothe. With little or no access to life-saving medical treatment, infant and maternal mortality is one of the leading causes of death in the camps, home to 140,000 Rohingya. Midwives say the situation seems to be worsening by the day. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe) ( Myanmar A Brief Life Photo Essay )
In this June 27, 2014 photo, men pray after the burial of Shamshu Nahad's infant daughter who died few hours after she was born, at Dar Paing village cemetery in north of Sittwe, Rakhine state, Myanmar. The child is one of the latest and smallest victims in an unfolding humanitarian crisis in camps with more than 140,000 Rohingya refugees that live under apartheid-like conditions. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe) ( Myanmar A Brief Life Photo Essay )
In this June 27 2014 photo, Yusuf handovers the corpse of his niece to a community elder to place on the ground for burial at Dar Paing village cemetery in north of Sittwe, Rakhine state, Myanmar. The child is one of the latest and smallest victims in an unfolding humanitarian crisis in camps with more than 140,000 Rohingya Muslims that live under apartheid-like conditions. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe) ( Myanmar A Brief Life Photo Essay )
In this June 27, 2014 photo, men stand before the corpse of Shamshu Nahad's daughter in prayer at a back yard of a mosque in Dar Paing village, north of Sittwe, Rakhine state, Myanmar. Cloaked in a white clothe, the little body is placed on a bamboo mat ahead of her burial. With little or no access to life-saving medical care, the number of people dying is steadily increasing. Pregnant mothers and their newborns are among the most vulnerable. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe) ( Myanmar A Brief Life Photo Essay )
In this June 27 2014 photo, Mohammed Shafiq digs the ground to bury the corpse of his daughter, covered in a cloth and held by his brother Yusuf, at Dar Paing village cemetery in north of Sittwe, Rakhine state, Myanmar. The child is one of the latest and smallest victims in an unfolding humanitarian crisis in camps with more than 140,000 Rohingya Muslims that live under apartheid-like conditions. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe) ( Myanmar A Brief Life Photo Essay )
In this June 27, 2014 photo, the corpse of Shamshu Nahad's infant daughter is placed in a hole in the ground for burial at the Dar Paing village cemetery, north of Sittwe, Rakhine state, Myanmar. The simple ceremony marking her death lasted only 10 minutes. The child is one of the latest and smallest victims in an unfolding humanitarian crisis in camps with more than 140,000 Rohingya Muslims that live under apartheid-like conditions. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe) ( Myanmar A Brief Life Photo Essay )
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