The Flight of Myanmar's Rohingya: A Visual Anthology

In Myanmar in Southeast Asia, a military crackdown and associated vigilante violence the past three weeks have forced 300,000 to 400,000 Muslim Rohingya to seek safety in Bangladesh. Myanmar's actions, which followed an Aug. 25 attack by Rohingya insurgents on police and military outposts, have generated condemnation from the Muslim world, prompted the U.N. high commissioner for human rights to call the situation a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing," and sullied the human rights reputation of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's de facto leader and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. In a visual anthology, we present images that offer a glimpse into Myanmar's ethnic divisions and its turbulent history with its Rohingya population....