More than 200 Rohingya villages burnt

September 19, 2017 13:47

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said today her country does not fear international scrutiny and a "great majority" of Muslims within the conflict zone stayed and that "more than 50 per cent of their villages were intact. An estimated 412,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh in less than a month as their villages burned and hundreds were killed.

However, these satellite images of Rohingya villages, before and after the clashes, speak of a different story.

From the New York Times.

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