Residents of Aung Mingalar quarter, a modern-day ghetto of approximately 4,500 Rohingya Muslims in downtown Sittwe, live confined existences.
Armed authorities guard the quarter after Buddhist and Muslim clashes in Sittwe in June of 2012. The residents need permission to leave, to get food supplies, even to see the doctor.
On a recent visit in April I was able to take photos not just of the conditions of the place, which of course are poverty-ridden, but of the residents themselves.