The Myanmar Refugee Crisis

The persecution of the Rohingyas inward Myanmar is forcing tens of thousands to accept to rickety angling boats inward firm to escape the country. Neighboring countries, such equally People's Republic of Bangladesh too Malaysia, cause got already taken inward thousands of migrants fleeing from Buddhist persecution inward Myanmar.  Malaysia, Thailand, too Republic of Indonesia are straight off refusing to permit the migrant boats to reason on their shores.

Foreign Policy has used the CartoDB mapping platform to tending explicate the Southeast Asian Migrant Crisis.The article includes ii interactive maps. The showtime map shows the catamenia of Myanmar migrants to neighboring countries using arrowed polylines. The map besides uses CartoDB's annotated markers to add together information close the province of affairs faced past times the Rohingyas inward Myanmar too on their migrant journeys.

CartoDB's Annotations are text overlays which are linked to coordinates on the map (they tin besides survive linked to a zoom arrive at then that they exclusively look at for sure zoom levels). Foreign Policy has added links to the map annotations, which Pb to related intelligence coverage of the refugee crisis inward the area.


Foreign Policy's 2d map shows the estimated numbers of Myanmar refugees taken inward past times neigboring countries. The information for the 2d map shows the UN 2013 estimated publish of Myanmar migrants living inward each country.