Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
Rohingya disaster: Bangladesh has called out the military to provide aid to more than 420,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled across the border from Myanmar in the past three weeks. The Myanmarese military has launched a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya, a minority in the majority Buddhist country, driving them from their homes in the western state of Rakhine. They now face disaster in Bangladesh, where they are sheltering in makeshift tents, with no toilets or sanitation, as monsoon rains drench the region. Myanmar’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, widely criticized for failing to denounce the purge, said in a speech this week that her government didn’t know “why this exodus is happening.”