The only university in a state long neglected by the central government is in Sittwe, and before the violence the two communities studied there side by side. But with Rohingya blocked from leaving the camps around Sittwe and the ghettos inside of it, and forbidden to board the boat at Buthidaung jetty that once ferried them down to the state capital, their access to higher education was completely severed and another zone of cultural and intellectual exchange eliminated.
