The ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims inwards Myanmar’s western Rakhine nation has caused hundreds of thousands of refugees to flee to neighboring Bangladesh. Amnesty International's Mapping Myanmar's Atrocities Against Rohingya is a even map exploring the systematic burning of Rohingya villages, mosques in addition to homes yesteryear the Myanmar military.
As you lot progress through Amnesty's even map pump witness accounts furnish prove of the atrocities carried out yesteryear the Myanmar army. In detail the map recounts the Chut Pyin Massacre, where hundreds of Rohingya were killed, in addition to the hamlet was laid upwards ablaze. Following the Chut Pyin Massacre the the world forces went on to burn downwards down many to a greater extent than Rohingya villages. The Amnesty map uses earlier in addition to subsequently satellite images to present the targeted burning of these Rohingya villages. As Amnesty's map shows this "didn’t simply direct position inwards i surface area - it happened inwards Rohingya villages across northern Rakhine State".
Amnesty map documents the refugee routes taken yesteryear the Rohingya who fled to neighboring Bangladesh. The map likewise documents how the Myanmar the world forces has been edifice military machine bases across Rakhine state, oft on solid soil where Rohingya used to live. The burning of villages in addition to the edifice of military machine bases seems deliberately designed to deter Rohingya from returning to their homes.
Reuters has likewise used information from the U.N. Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) to map the Rohingya homes in addition to villages which receive got been burned yesteryear the Myanmar military. Burned to the Ground uses satellite imagery of Myanmar to identify villages which receive got been shelled in addition to / or burnt to the ground.
As you lot read through Burned to the Ground an interactive satellite map scrolls along a 110km strip of Rakhine nation inwards Myanmar highlighting the burned villages piece likewise outlining to a greater extent than or less of the atrocities carried out yesteryear the Myanmar military machine in addition to government. Around 655,000 Rohingya receive got right away been displaced. Myanmar is making certain that they volition receive got no homes to render to.
