Five years after the crackdown, Myanmar’s remaining Rohingya ‘living like animals’

The Guardian

Rebecca Ratcliffe 

South-east Asia correspondent

Thu 25 Aug 2022 

While 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar after 25 August 2017, 600,000 remain, facing harsh restrictions on movement, persecution and poverty‘

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ive years ago Muhammad*, his wife and two children sheltered at their home, terrified as they heard of violence tearing through nearby villages. The Myanmar military had launched so-called “clearance operations” in northern Rakhine state, forcing huge numbers of Rohingya people to flee into neighbouring Bangladesh.