The ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims inwards Myanmar’s western Rakhine solid seat down has caused hundreds of thousands of refugees to flee to neighboring Bangladesh. Amnesty International's Mapping Myanmar's Atrocities Against Rohingya is a storey map exploring the systematic burning of Rohingya villages, mosques as well as homes past times the Myanmar military.
As yous progress through Amnesty's storey map middle witness accounts render testify of the atrocities carried out past times the Myanmar army. In detail the map recounts the Chut Pyin Massacre, where hundreds of Rohingya were killed, as well as the hamlet was laid upwardly ablaze. Following the Chut Pyin Massacre the regular army went on to burn downwardly down many to a greater extent than Rohingya villages. The Amnesty map uses earlier as well as later on satellite images to present the targeted burning of these Rohingya villages. As Amnesty's map shows this "didn’t only give off inwards ane surface area - it happened inwards Rohingya villages across northern Rakhine State".
Amnesty map documents the refugee routes taken past times the Rohingya who fled to neighboring Bangladesh. The map every bit good documents how the Myanmar regular army has been edifice state of war machine bases across Rakhine state, oft on solid seat down where Rohingya used to live. The burning of villages as well as the edifice of state of war machine bases seems deliberately designed to deter Rohingya from returning to their homes.
Reuters has every bit good used information from the U.N. Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) to map the Rohingya homes as well as villages which direct maintain been burned past times the Myanmar military. Burned to the Ground uses satellite imagery of Myanmar to identify villages which direct maintain been shelled as well as / or burnt to the ground.
As yous read through Burned to the Ground an interactive satellite map scrolls along a 110km strip of Rakhine solid seat down inwards Myanmar highlighting the burned villages patch every bit good outlining about of the atrocities carried out past times the Myanmar state of war machine as well as government. Around 655,000 Rohingya direct maintain similar a shot been displaced. Myanmar is making certain that they volition direct maintain no homes to render to.
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