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12-05-2017, 03:56 AM
Before-and-after satellite images show massive influx of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
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The severity of the world's fastest growing (http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=57831#.WiV--hNSxTY) refugee crisis becomes even clearer when viewed from space.
An estimated 624,000 (http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/rohingya-emergency.html) Rohingya refugees, a Muslim ethnic minority in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state, have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since late August to escape oppression and extreme violence from Myanmar's military and Buddhist majority. Due to decades (http://http://time.com/4596937/burma-myanmar-rohingya-bangladesh-refugees-crimes-against-humanity/) of persecution, nearly 1 million (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/10/25/bangladesh-is-now-home-to-almost-1-million-rohingya-refugees/) Rohingya currently live in Bangladesh.
SEE ALSO: Follow the desperate flight of Rohingya refugees with this moving map (http://mashable.com/2017/11/03/rohingya-refugees-bangladesh-map/)
The recent influx of Rohingya in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district, where the Kutupalong and Nayapara refugee camps are located, has prompted plans to build the largest refugee camp (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/06/bangladesh-build-worlds-largest-refugee-camps-800000-rohingya) in the world. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/04/rohingya-refugees-bangladesh-satellite-images/)
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The severity of the world's fastest growing (http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=57831#.WiV--hNSxTY) refugee crisis becomes even clearer when viewed from space.
An estimated 624,000 (http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/rohingya-emergency.html) Rohingya refugees, a Muslim ethnic minority in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state, have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since late August to escape oppression and extreme violence from Myanmar's military and Buddhist majority. Due to decades (http://http://time.com/4596937/burma-myanmar-rohingya-bangladesh-refugees-crimes-against-humanity/) of persecution, nearly 1 million (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/10/25/bangladesh-is-now-home-to-almost-1-million-rohingya-refugees/) Rohingya currently live in Bangladesh.
SEE ALSO: Follow the desperate flight of Rohingya refugees with this moving map (http://mashable.com/2017/11/03/rohingya-refugees-bangladesh-map/)
The recent influx of Rohingya in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district, where the Kutupalong and Nayapara refugee camps are located, has prompted plans to build the largest refugee camp (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/06/bangladesh-build-worlds-largest-refugee-camps-800000-rohingya) in the world. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/04/rohingya-refugees-bangladesh-satellite-images/)
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