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Desperate Rohingya Flee Myanmar on Trail of Suffering. ‘It Is All Gone.’

"Aung San Suu Kyi: No ethnic cleansing of Myanmar Muslim minority"

By HANNAH BEECH SEPT. 2, 2017

VIDEO: ‘Endless Stream’ of Rohingya Flee Military Offensive
By HANNAH BEECH, MALACHY BROWNE, BARBARA MARCOLINI and AINARA TIEFENTHÄLER 4:54

REZU AMTALI, Bangladesh — They stumble down muddy ravines and flooded creeks through miles of hills and jungle in Bangladesh .. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/bangladesh/index.html?inline=nyt-geo , and thousands more come each day, in a line stretching to the monsoon-darkened horizon.

Some are gaunt and spent, already starving and carrying listless and dehydrated babies, with many miles to go before they reach any refugee camp.

They are tens of thousands of Rohingya, who arrive bearing accounts of massacre at the hands of the Myanmar .. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/myanmar/index.html?inline=nyt-geo .. security forces and allied mobs that started on Aug. 25, after Rohingya militants staged attacks .. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/world/asia/myanmar-rakhine-killed-kofi-annan.html .. against government forces.

The retaliation that followed was carried out in methodical assaults on villages, with helicopters raining down fire on civilians and front-line troops cutting off families’ escape. The villagers’ accounts all portray indiscriminate attacks against fleeing noncombatants, adding to a death toll that even in early estimates is high into the hundreds, and is probably vastly worse.

“There are no more villages left, none at all,” said Rashed Ahmed, a 46-year-old farmer from a hamlet in Maungdaw Township in Myanmar. He had already been walking for four days. “There are no more people left, either,” he said. “It is all gone.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/02/world/asia/rohingya-myanmar-bangladesh-refugees-massacre.html?mcubz=3&_r=0

.. i'm so sorry the photos will not reproduce .. we really are a needy and wanting species, eh ..