Alaska Dispatch April 2, 2013 According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, an estimated 27 million people remain displaced by conflict inside their own homelands. One heartbreaking story is that of the Rohingya people in Myanmar (Burma). Members of a Muslim minority, they are denied Burmese citizenship even though their families have lived in the country for centuries. Enduring the ravages of ethnic violence, the Rohingyas are prohibited from leaving designated areas for work, to forage for food, or to seek medical treatment. Identified as “eternal outsiders,” they are denied the rights of citizenship and human rights and are virtually forgotten by the world. News of this situation jolted me out of my Western comfort. I could see how much I had taken for granted my rights as a citizen of a country such as Australia, which gives me protection from injustice and deprivation. But the thought of the untenable position of so many peo...