the rohingyas came without an invitation. so we need to see whether they will cause harm to our homeland or not. >> reporter: it was silently abandoned at this fishing village. there must have been tense moments on the rough voyage on this rickety old vessel. they spent almost three weeks at sea without adequate food or water. the islamic symbol was with them throughout the journey. known as a stateless people, the rohingyas have been denied citizenship. they have also been denied into bangladesh. the u.n. estimates as many as 27,000 rohingyas may have fled their country. at least 500 of those died at sea. nearly 9,000 reached thai waters. about 2,000 are being detained. officials told nhk there is still a chance they will be sent back to myanmar. it's a possibility firmly opposed by the u.n. refugee agency. >> if that were to happen, it would be infringing on some international laws, basically the rule of, that people should not be sent to a place where their lives or their freedoms could be in danger. so we would strongly u

arson violence and a string of massacres that resulted in at least two hundred rohingya muslims needlessly slaughtered unfortunately a media blackout in the country is helping the world to ignore the plight of a people who've been acquired by the un as the most persecuted minority group in the world. independent journalist assad beg my recently interviewed from the ground in wrong mainland sherm sari in rangoon burma recently wrote about the room woman who are being taped being taken hostage by the burmese government and there's growing evidence suggesting that the military is keeping these women as sex slaves it's important that more visibility is given to this crisis before countless other innocent people die. and finally i want to talk about guantanamo bay prison currently ninety three of the prisoners were just more than half of the inmates at the prison camp have now joined a hunger strike that is reaching the end of its third month the source of the frustration among need to cheney's is a realization that congress and the obama administration have fully turned their back the idea tha

caused mass arson violence and a string of massacres that resulted in at least two hundred rohingya muslims needlessly slaughtered unfortunately a media blackout in the country is helping the world to ignore the plight of a people who've been acquired by the un is the most persecuted minority group in the world. independent journalist assad begg my recently interviewed from the ground in rangoon i'm sorry in rangoon burma recently wrote about the woman who are being being taken hostage by the burmese government and there's growing evidence suggesting that the military is keeping these women as sex slaves it's important that more visibility is given to this crisis before countless other innocent people die. and finally i want to talk about guantanamo bay prison only ninety three of the prisoners were just more than half of the inmates at the prison camp have now joined a hunger strike that is reaching the end of its third month the source of the frustration among detainees is the realization that congress and the obama administration have fully turned their backs on the idea that get motion

rights abuses and another tragically overlooked story that continues to unfold is the persecution of rohingya muslims in burma since the second massacre took place last october the world has continued to ignore what more and more officials are referring to as a genocidal ethnic cleansing conservative estimates suggest that over one hundred twenty thousand people remain homeless after buddhist extremists caused mass arson violence in a string of massacres that resulted in at least two hundred rohingya muslims needlessly slaughtered unfortunately a media blackout in the country is helping the world to ignore the plight of a people who've been acquired by the un is the most persecuted minority group in the world. independent journalist assad begg i recently interviewed from the ground in rangoon mainland sharm sorry in rangoon burma recently wrote about the woman who are be being taken hostage by the burmese government knowing evidence suggesting the military is keeping these women as sex slaves so important that more visibility is given to this crisis before. countless other innocent people die

ethnic and religious tension between a predominantly buddhist population of burma and the sect of rohingya muslims that share the land in the last few months the violence has escalated resulting in multiple massacres of the muslim minority. although the media remain silent this is a human rights emergency that begs the attention of the international community against an insight i spoke earlier with us said beg an independent journalist on the ground in burma i first asked him to briefly explain the crux of the sectarian divide and here's what he had to say. to me that divide exists because it's a number of reasons one is the northwest iraq and year muslims who denied recognition that citizens of burma and this goes back. decades where the. law basically didn't recognize them and the other is the muslims who are not recognized as been you so they recognize as citizens are recognized as burmese on the id cards and ethnicity of india and bengali. tamil so you have this kind of religious. discrimination if you want i think a lot of people are surprised to learn that much of the violence been i

they watched as a government truck dumped 18 naked and half closed bodies of ron -- rohingya. the images are too graphic for display, but it appears that some of them were killed execution style. at least one was a child. they were buried in two pits. when we asked -- when hrw asked president thein sein what had been done with the bodies of the killed, his office replied in a fax that said, "the dead there of bengalis were read in their religious cemeteries with the arrangement of the retiring state government -- the rakhine state government." >> generally, unhr has not had too much difficulty in providing access. there are some ngo's who have had difficulty. their staff are being harassed or intimidated. they are afraid to work in some areas. >> tens of thousands of people need food, medical care, and shelter, but the government is doing very little to change the situation. >> i want to bring you an update on the hostage situation in afghanistan. you might remember the authorities and logar province saying the -- the afghanistan authority saying that the hostages.d kidnapped