Thousands Flee Myanmar As A New Rohingya Muslim Insurgence Emerges And The Military Cracks Down

Time: ‘The Villages are Burning Down.’ Fear and Fire Send Rohingya Fleeing to Bangladesh

Attacks by insurgents. A brutal military crackdown. Thousands of villagers running for their lives. History is repeating itself in Myanmar less than a year after the emergence of a new Rohingya Muslim insurgency first threatened fragile efforts to bring peace to the country’s volatile western Rakhine state.

“In the west of my direction I am seeing smoke,” a Rohingya man in his twenties, who asked not to be named for his safety, told TIME by phone Wednesday from Maungdaw town near the border with Bangladesh. “The villages are burning down.” Markets in the town had been closed, he said, and villagers were afraid of going outside for fear of soldiers. Food was running out. “I can hear my neighbors' children crying,” he said.

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More News On The Ongoing Violence In Rakhine State In Myanmar

Villagers slaughtered in Myanmar 'massacre', reports of women and children among more than 100 dead -- ABC Online
Bodies wash up on Bangladesh shore as Rohingya flee Myanmar -- Reuters
Twenty-six ethnic Rohingyas drown fleeing Myanmar violence -- Euronews
Desperate Rohingyas risk all in bid to flee violence -- Daily Sabah
Myanmar: UN expert urges efforts to break 'worsening cycle of violence' in Rakhine -- UN News Centre
Factbox: Humanitarian Crisis Hits Bangladesh as Thousands of Rohingya Flee Myanmar -- U.S. News & World Report
In Myanmar, Buddhists take hard stance against Muslim Rohingya minority -- Christian Science Monitor
INFOGRAPHIC - Myanmar continuing operations against Muslim civilians -- Anadolu Agency