Active-fire data does not provide the cause of a fire, so one must exercise caution in interpreting it, especially when researching violence. To deal with this challenge, I exported residential data from the online mapping site Openstreetmap. The results were disturbing: All the villages I had identified were at least partially burned, with hundreds of destroyed homes. As this was not a comprehensive analysis of the whole area affected by violence, the actual number of burned villages is probably much higher. Aid organizations are reporting around 70 burned villages and more than 2,000 destroyed homes.

Source: New York Times March 08, 2018 14:15 UTC