The ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims inwards Myanmar’s western Rakhine acre has caused hundreds of thousands of refugees to flee to neighboring Bangladesh. Reuters has used information from the U.N. Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) to map the Rohingya homes as well as villages which direct keep been burned past times the Myanmar military.
Burned to the Ground uses satellite imagery of Myanmar to identify villages which direct keep been shelled as well as / or burnt to the ground. As y'all read through Burned to the Ground an interactive satellite map scrolls along a 110km strip of Rakhine acre inwards Myanmar highlighting the burned villages piece also outlining closed to of the atrocities carried out past times the Myanmar armed forces as well as government.
Around 655,000 Rohingya direct keep at i time been displaced. Myanmar is making certain that they volition direct keep no homes where they tin return.
The vast bulk of the Rohingya fleeing persecution inwards Myanmar direct keep ended upwards inwards Bangladesh. The refugee camps inwards Cox's Bazar, People's Republic of Bangladesh are having to grapple amongst hundreds of thousands of people who direct keep escaped from Myanmar. The incredible overcrowding inwards the camps has led to atmospheric condition of piteous sanitation as well as express wellness care. Reuters has undertaken analysis of satellite photos of the camps to assess the role of latrines as well as H2O pumps inwards the camps as well as how their distribution as well as role mightiness resultant the well-being of those living there.
In The Rohingya Crisis: Life inwards the Camps Reuters has used recent satellite imagery to explore the publish as well as placement of latrines, makeshift latrines, opened upwards defecation areas as well as H2O pumps. The intelligence way has identified those latrines which are besides virtually or besides far from refugee households. It has also identified makeshift latrines as well as opened upwards defecation areas, which direct keep been built past times the refugees themselves. Many of these are located inwards dangerous areas or are besides shallow as well as so pose a wellness direct chances to nearby H2O pumps.
As to a greater extent than as well as to a greater extent than desperate refugees brand it from Myanmar the Kutupalong refugee campsite grows inwards size everyday. The AFP intelligence way reports that it is educate to trouble solid 800,000 people, which would brand it the largest refugee campsite inwards the world.
The AFP has interviewed a publish of refugees who at i time alive inwards the Kutupalong refugee camp. You tin read their stories on the KFP's Kutupalong: Rohingyas Hit Dead End interactive map. The map uses a recent satellite picture of the campsite equally the base-map for these refugee stories. The role of a satellite picture is really effective inwards conveying the sheer size of the Kutpalong camp. The numbered markers on the map furnish access to the refugees interviewed past times the KFP. You tin read these stories exactly past times selecting the markers on the map.
