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Satellite Bear Witness Of Myanmar Atrocities


The ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims inwards Myanmar’s western Rakhine state 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 y'all progress through Amnesty's storey map pump witness accounts render bear witness of the atrocities carried out past times the Myanmar army. In item the map recounts the Chut Pyin Massacre, where hundreds of Rohingya were killed, as well as the hamlet was laid upwards ablaze. Following the Chut Pyin Massacre the regular army went on to flaming downwards many to a greater extent than Rohingya villages. The Amnesty map uses earlier as well as subsequently satellite images to present the targeted burning of these Rohingya villages. As Amnesty's map shows this "didn’t only move on inwards 1 expanse - 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 equally good documents how the Myanmar regular army has been edifice armed forces bases across Rakhine state, oft on Blue Planet where Rohingya used to live. The burning of villages as well as the edifice of armed forces bases seems deliberately designed to deter Rohingya from returning to their homes.


Reuters has equally good used information from the U.N. Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) to map the Rohingya homes as well as villages which receive got been burned past times the Myanmar military. Burned to the Ground uses satellite imagery of Myanmar to identify villages which receive got 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 state inwards Myanmar highlighting the burned villages spell equally good outlining or as well as then of the atrocities carried out past times the Myanmar armed forces as well as government. Around 655,000 Rohingya receive got similar a shot been displaced. Myanmar is making certain that they volition receive got no homes to render to.