"Despite all the applause for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi‟s recent trip to Europe and the reforms of the incumbent president of Myanmar, U Thein Sein, the situation of the systematically persecuted Muslim minority of the Rohingya remains grave. In the recent outbreaks of violence in May/June 2012, following the rape -murder of the Buddhist woman Thidar Htwe on May 28th 2012, at least 62 persons have been killed, leaving 32,000 people displaced and arou nd 100,000 have tried to flee the violent conflict between the Buddhist Rakhine and the Muslim Rohingya. There are numerous claims and reports of Rohingya being killed, tortured and raped, and their property looted by the security forces and the Buddhist citizens that has resulted in around 600 deaths, which could not be verified due to the absence of an independent media. However, this tragedy is not an isolated case but just the tip of the iceberg that constitutes a much deeper problem: the ongoing, decade-old persecution and discrimination of the Rohingya and the deeply rooted racism in the Burmese society...".....Written NGO statement to the 21th Session of UN Human Rights Council.