A visual explainer of the unrest in Myanmar that has forced around one million Rohingya to flee their
They’ve been described as the “world’s most persecuted minority”. The Rohingya are a majority-Muslim ethnic group who have lived in the Buddhist nation of Myanmar for centuries.
The maps below follow the path of Rohingya from their ethnic homeland of Rakhine state in Myanmar to Bangladesh’s district of Cox’s Bazar, as well as several other countries in Asia, where the Rohingya have sought sanctuary since the 1970s.
Where are the Rohingya located?
The Rohingya have faced persecution at the hands of Myanmar’s military since the country’s independence in the late 1940s.
In October 2016, a military crackdown in the wake of a deadly attack on an army post sent hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fleeing to neighbouring Bangladesh.
Similar attacks in August 2017 led to the ongoing military crackdown, which has led to a new mass exodus of Rohingya.
Most Rohingya have sought refuge in and around Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh.
