Rohingya Muslims Living In Limbo At Indonesia's Refugee Camps

MEDAN, NORTH SUMATRA, INDONESIA - FEBRUARY 12: A Rohingya refugee family Muhammad Shofialam (31), and his wife Mazumakatuh (26) with their children, pose for photograph inside of their refugee camp on February 12, 2017 in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Muhammad Shofialam, have been in refugee camp for six years and are not able to legally work while waiting for registration and resettlement. Thousands of Rohingya Muslims have been stuck in limbo at Indonesia's refugee camps while reports of atrocities on the ethnic minority in the Myanmar’s Western Rakhine State continues. According to reports, around 800 Rohingya have been granted refugee status by the UNHCR in Indonesia, many of them from 2015 when approximately 87,000 Rohingya attempted to flee from Myanmar to Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia by boat. Myanmar’s government said on Monday it plans to investigate if the police have committed abuses in the northern Rakhine State as waves of Rohingya Muslims continue to cross the border into Bangladesh since October last year after the Burmese army launched a campaign it calls 'clearance operations' in response to an attack on border police. Harrowing stories have since been reported on the Burmese army committing human-rights abuses, such as gang rape, arson and extrajudicial killing in the Rakhine State. (Photo by Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images)