Two years after Myanmar's military brutal campaign against the Rohingya, which led to the exodus of more than 750,000 people and sustained accusations of genocide, an important number estimated between 500 and 700,000 stayed behind in Rakhine. Mainly concentrated around Sittwe and other townships in central and southern Rakhine. Their situation is becoming worse since hamanitarian aid is severely restricted, a new ethnic conflict has erupted in Rakhine and the attention of aid agencies have been mainly focussing on the Rohingya that fled to Bangladesh in 2017. Their movements are further severely restricted allowing them to circulate within the camps and surrounding Rohingya villages. A train that passes through the villages and camps twice a day remains the only affordable transport between the IDP camps on the outskirts of Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine. Rohingya villagers travelling by train to the IDP camps where 130,000 Rohingya have forcibly be settled since 2012. Sittwe township, Rakhine, Myanmar, September 2019
Rohingya minority travelling on the local train between the IDP camps. They are not allowed to travel to Sittwe and the trains are guarded by heavily armed police forces. Sittwe township, Myanmar, September 2019
Rohingya waiting for the train to leave and return to the IDP camps after visiting relatives in a nearby Rohingya village. The daily train is the sole means of transportation Rohingya are allowed to take to travel between the villages and the IDP camps. They are not allowed to travel all the way to Sittwe city. Rakhine, Myanmar, September 2019
Rohingya children watching the train passing through the IDP camps north of Sittwe. Rakhine, Myanmar, September 2019
Rohingya villagers travelling by train to the IDP camps where 130,000 Rohingya have forcibly be settled since 2012. Sittwe township, Rakhine, Myanmar, September 2019
Train travelling between the Rohingya IDP camps, guarded by heavily armed police forces. Sittwe township, Myanmar, September 2019
The train passing through the Rohingya IDP camps north of Sittwe. Rakhine State, Myanmar, September 2019
Sittwe port extension standing currently empty. Sittwe town, Rakhine State, Myanmar, September 2019
Rohingya minority travelling on the local train between the IDP camps. They are not allowed to travel to Sittwe and the trains are guarded by heavily armed police forces. Sittwe township, Myanmar, September 2019
A Rohingya man travelling by train to visit relatives living in a nearby IDP camp. Sittwe township, Myanmar, September 2019
A Rohingya man carrying water to his village in Sittwe township. Movements between Rohingya villages and the camps are severely restricted and are completely sealed off from Sittwe town. Rakhine State, Sittwe township, September 2019
Rohingya village along the rail track. Sittwe township, Rakhine, Myanmar, September 2019
Rural Sittwe township where dozens of small Rohingya villages are scattered and completely cut off from the towns and other villages. Rakhine State, Myanmar, September 2019
Rohingya minority travelling on the local train between the IDP camps. They are not allowed to travel to Sittwe and the trains are guarded by heavily armed police forces. Sittwe township, Myanmar, September 2019
Rohingya village along the rail track. Sittwe township, Rakhine, Myanmar, September 2019
Rohingya minority travelling on the local train between the IDP camps. They are not allowed to travel to Sittwe and the trains are guarded by heavily armed police forces. Sittwe township, Myanmar, September 2019
Rice fields in rural Sittwe township, Rakhine, Myanmar, September 2019
The train making its way through rural Sittwe township. Rakhine, Myanmar, September 2019
Rohingya villagers travelling by train to the IDP camps where 130,000 Rohingya have forcibly be settled since 2012. Sittwe township, Rakhine, Myanmar, September 2019
One of the accesses to the fully sealed off Rohingya gettho of Aung Mingalar in Sittwe. The Rohingya population is not allowed to leave that part of town since the inter ethnic violence of 2012 and live in a de-facto concentration camp. The State capital of Rakhine, Sittwe, Myanmar, October 2019
A Rohingya ice cream seller taking the train to go selling ice creams in the Rohingya IDP camps further down the train line. Rakhine State, Myanmar, September 2019
Rohingya minority travelling on the local train between the IDP camps. They are not allowed to travel to Sittwe and the trains are guarded by heavily armed police forces. Sittwe township, Myanmar, September 2019
Rohingya elderly watching the train pass by. Sittwe township, Rakhine, Myanmar, September 2019
Rohingya villagers returning by foot to their village after bying commodities in the Rohingya IDP camps. Rohingya are not allowed to travel freely to the Sittwe market and need to procure their needs at higher prices in the sealed off IDP camps. Northern Sittwe township, Rakhine, September 2019
Rohingya villagers travelling by train to the IDP camps where 130,000 Rohingya have forcibly be settled since 2012. Sittwe township, Rakhine, Myanmar, September 2019
Myanmar police going to start his duty at one of the check points of fully sealed off Rohingya gettho of Aung Mingalar in Sittwe. The Rohingya population is not allowed to leave that part of town since the inter ethnic violence of 2012 and live in a de-facto concentration camp. The State capital of Rakhine, Sittwe, Myanmar, September 2019
Rohingya minority travelling on the local train between the IDP camps. They are not allowed to travel to Sittwe and the trains are guarded by heavily armed police forces. Sittwe township, Myanmar, September 2019
Rohingya minority travelling on the local train between the IDP camps. They are not allowed to travel to Sittwe and the trains are guarded by heavily armed police forces. Sittwe township, Myanmar, September 2019