"Ongoing tensions between Buddhist and Muslim communities in Myanmar?s western Rakhine State have created a threatening environment for aid workers, hindering assistance to more than 127,000 displaced persons. ?Access to IDPs [internally displaced persons] is being seriously hampered by ongoing intimidation [of aid workers] by some members of the local community,? noted the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Yangon. Humanitarian organizations, including medical NGO M?decins Sans Fronti?res, report aid staff have faced accusations by the local Rakhine community - who are mostly Buddhist - that their assistance favours the Muslim Rohingya minority. The majority of the displaced are Rohingya, but there are also hundreds of Buddhists among them, according to government estimates..."