In Pictures: Rohingya flee persecution in Myanmar
UN says the violence against Rohingya since August 25 has spiralled into the 'world's fastest-developing refugee emergency, a humanitarian and human rights nightmare.'
A Rohingya Muslim refugee mourns beside the body of his child near Inani beach in Cox's Bazar district on September 29, 2017, a day after a boat carrying some 130 refugees capsized off Bangladesh. (AFP)
International condemnation has intensified over the plight of ethnic Rohingya Muslims after Myanmar's military operation since August 25 caused over 500,000 Rohingya to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh.
Known as the world's most persecuted minority, the UN chief has called the army crackdown on Rohingya "a text book example of ethnic cleansing."
The current crisis has its roots in the violence eleven months ago in the northern Rakhine state – home to 1.1-million Rohingya Muslims – when armed attackers targeted police posts and snatched weapons sparking a brutal military operation that continues till today.
Since August 25, according to the UN , a "wave of humanity" fleeing persecution in the Buddhist-majority Myanmar has reached Bangladesh.
Aerial view of a burned Rohingya village near Maungdaw, north of Rakhine state, Myanmar on September 27, 2017. (Reuters)
A Bangladeshi boy walks towards a parked boat as smoke rises from across the border in Myanmar, at Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh on September 14, 2017. The military rejected allegations that troops have burned Rohingya villages, accusing Rohingya militants of lighting the fires. The claims can't be independently verified since access to aid workers and journalists is severely restricted in the northern Rakhine. (AP)
Bodies of children and other Rohingya refugees are covered after their boat fleeing from Myanmar capsized off the Inani beach near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh September 28, 2017. Bangladesh police said there were 27 survivors, 19 dead and more than 50 missing in a boat reportedly carrying 130 Rohingya.
A Rohingya refugee child crawls through mud in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh was taken on September 21, 2017. Bangladesh is building special shelters for around 6,000 Rohingya children, who entered the country without parents. Of the over half a million refugees, 60 percent are children, according to UN estimates. (Reuters)
Rohingya refugees run for food being distributed at the Thangkhali refugee camp near Ukhia on September 27, 2017. The UN has drawn up a contingency plan to feed up to 700,000 Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar while arrivals continue. A senior official from the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) said they were now prepared to provide massive food and other emergency aid if the influx continues in coming weeks. (AFP)
Rohingya refugees queue for aid at Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, September 26, 2017. Relief organisation Save the Children says as more refugees from Myanmar arrive in Bangladesh, they face the risk of dying from a lack of food, water and supplies.(Reuters)
A Rohingya refugee collapses as he waits to receive aid in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh on September 24, 2017. Often when aid arrives, hungry and sick Rohingya jostle for aid, sparking fights while some weak collapse. Aid groups say the limited access to clean water, aid supplies and health services are heightening the risk of disease outbreak. (Reuters)
Hoor Bahar, 60, a Rohingya immigrant living in Pakistan, poses for a photograph during an interview with Reuters at her residence in Arkanabad neighbourhood in Karachi, Pakistan September 7, 2017. Some 300,000 Rohingya refugees, who fled Myanmar during previous persecutions, live in Pakistan. (Reuters)
Migrants rest inside a shelter after being rescued from boats at Lhoksukon in Indonesia's Aceh Province on May 18, 2015. Thousands of Rohingya or 'boat people' fleeing persecution in Myanmar remained wandering in sea as several countries in Southeast Asia denied them entry. Rohingya have often taken dangerous sea routes to escape Myanmar with many of them drowning in sea or locked in the security camps of other countries for illegal migration. (Reuters)
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