It has been three years since the mass exodus of more than 730,000 Rohingya from Myanmar's Rakhine State following sweeping military retaliation to attacks by Rohingya insurgents on police posts and an army base on Aug. 25, 2017. The scale of the unfolding refugee crisis with hundreds of thousands coming across the border every day was illustrated with this graphic. A closer look at the boat passages across the Naf River and the Bay of Bengal, examining the distinctive "moon boat" vessels that many Rohingya arrived in, how much their journeys cost and how many accidents occurred. Three years after the crisis began, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees remain in camps in Bangladesh. In this summary interactive graphic, Reuters scrutinises the scene left behind in Myanmar, where Rohingya villages were burnt.

Source: The Star August 24, 2020 08:48 UTC