Myar Zin village

May 23, 2017 Sept. 16, 2017

Nwar Yon Taung village

May 25, 2017 Sept. 16, 2017

Villages set on fire

On Aug. 25, a Rohingya militant group staged a series of attacks against police outposts in Rakhine state. In response, Myanmar’s military and local Buddhist vigilante groups began a crackdown on the Rohingya, a Muslim minority.

Villages that have been set on fire Taungpyoletwea MYANMAR Myar Zin BANGLADESH Yae Twin Kyun Buthidaung Nwar Yon Taung Maungdaw MYANMAR Rakhine State Bay of Bengal 10 Miles Villages that have been set on fire Taungpyoletwea MYANMAR Myar Zin Yae Twin Kyun Buthidaung Nwar Yon Taung BANGLADESH Maungdaw MYANMAR Rakhine State Bay of Bengal 10 Miles The New York Times | Source: Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch conducted an analysis of satellite imagery, counting at least 200 villages burned down in the offensive, which the United Nations has called “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.”

Yae Twin Kyun village

May 23, 2017 Sept. 16, 2017

The photograph below shows that on Thursday, smoke from fires in Myanmar was visible from Shah Porir Dwip, a coastal town across the border in Bangladesh.

Smoke from fires in Myanmar was seen from Bangladesh on Thursday. Dar Yasin/Associated Press

More than 400,000 Rohingya refugees, many of them women, children and seniors, desperately fled to neighboring Bangladesh in the middle of monsoon season. Below, a photograph from Sept. 12 shows one of the villages near Maungdaw that was attacked in Myanmar’s campaign against the Rohingya people.

The remnants of a house in a village near Maungdaw. Reuters

Many reported that their villages had been burned down and that those who stayed were killed. Dozens of overcrowded makeshift camps have emerged across the border, like the one below, near the Bangladeshi village of Gumdhum.