Ethnic Cleansing Inward Myanmar
The ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims inwards Myanmar’s western Rakhine country has caused hundreds of thousands of refugees to flee to neighboring Bangladesh. Reuters has used information from the U.N. Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) to map the Rohingya homes together with villages which own got been burned past times the Myanmar military.
Burned to the Ground uses satellite imagery of Myanmar to identify villages which own got been shelled together with / 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 country inwards Myanmar highlighting the burned villages field also outlining to a greater extent than or less of the atrocities carried out past times the Myanmar armed forces together with government.
Around 655,000 Rohingya own got straightaway been displaced. Myanmar is making certain that they volition own got no homes where they tin return.
The vast bulk of the Rohingya fleeing persecution inwards Myanmar own got ended upward inwards Bangladesh. The refugee camps inwards Cox's Bazar, People's Republic of Bangladesh are having to create out amongst hundreds of thousands of people who own got escaped from Myanmar. The incredible overcrowding inwards the camps has led to weather of hapless sanitation together with express wellness care. Reuters has undertaken analysis of satellite photos of the camps to assess the role of latrines together with H2O pumps inwards the camps together with how their distribution together with role mightiness upshot the well-being of those living there.
In The Rohingya Crisis: Life inwards the Camps Reuters has used recent satellite imagery to explore the publish together with placement of latrines, makeshift latrines, opened upward defecation areas together with H2O pumps. The tidings means has identified those latrines which are besides nigh or besides far from refugee households. It has also identified makeshift latrines together with opened upward defecation areas, which own got been built past times the refugees themselves. Many of these are located inwards dangerous areas or are besides shallow together with thence pose a wellness opportunity to nearby H2O pumps.
As to a greater extent than together with to a greater extent than desperate refugees enter from Myanmar the Kutupalong refugee army camp grows inwards size everyday. The AFP tidings means reports that it is ready to solid 800,000 people, which would brand it the largest refugee army camp inwards the world.
The AFP has interviewed a publish of refugees who straightaway alive inwards the Kutupalong refugee camp. You tin read their stories on the KFP's Kutupalong: Rohingyas Hit Dead End interactive map. The map uses a recent satellite icon of the army camp every bit the base-map for these refugee stories. The role of a satellite icon is really effective inwards conveying the sheer size of the Kutpalong camp. The numbered markers on the map furnish access to the refugees interviewed past times the KFP. You tin read these stories exactly past times selecting the markers on the map.
