Rohingya Mubarak Begum, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, holds a photograph of her family members, in Kutupalong, Bangladesh, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017. Begum says the government took pictures of Rohingya families annually to track their numbers. Her daughter Rubina Begum (face scratched ) was not able to make the crossing with them and is still in Maungdaw.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 7 September 2017

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South Central Avenue. Phoenix, Arizona.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 5 September 2017

The New Navaho Bridge. Looking southwest from the Historic Navaho Bridge. This view includes Marble Canyon, the Colorado River, and the current route for Highway 89A.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 5 September 2017

I-84 now closed in the Columbia River Gorge because of fire threat. WB traffic must exit at exit 62, EB traffic at exit 63.: image via Oregon DOT @OregonDOT, 4 September 2017

#eaglecreekfire surrounds Munra Point in the Columbia River Gorge. Level 3 evacuations in place for Warrendale and Dodson.: image via Multnomah Co Sheriff @MultCoSo, 4 September 2017

It's incredibly sad to see the damage from the fire in our scenic Columbia River gorge.: image via Mike Reese @SheriffReese, 5 September 2017

Deputy Bohrer caught this photo while on patrol west of Cascade Locks. #EagleCreekFire: image via Multnomah Co Sheriff @MultCoSo, 8 September 2017

In the pantheon of visual metaphors for America today, this is the money shot.: image via David Simon @AoDespair, 7 September 2017

In fact, a brilliant illustration of cultural and climate denial. (Beacon Rock WA. "Our golfers are committed to finishing the round!").: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 7 September 2017

Waves crash on the seafront boulevard of El Malecon in Havana, Cuba: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 9 September 2017

Lucita Leonce 71, complains in front of her home flooded by heavy rains brought on by Hurricane Irma, in Fort-Liberte, Haiti, Friday Sept. 8, 2017. Irma rolled past the Dominican Republic and Haiti and battered the Turks and Caicos Islands early Friday with waves as high as 20 feet (6 meters).: photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP, 8 September 2017

Residents watch a televised weather forecast hours before the arrival of Hurricane Irma, in Caibarien, Cuba, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017. Cuba evacuated tourists from beachside resorts after Hurricane Irma left thousands homeless on a devastated string of Caribbean islands and spun toward Florida for what could be a catastrophic blow this weekend.: photo by Desmond Boylan/AP, 8 September 2017

Handlers from the Cayo Guillermo dolphinarium prepare dolphins for their transfer to the dolphinarium in Cienfuegos, located on Cuba's southern coast, just hours before the arrival of Hurricane Irma, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017. Irma spun along the northern coast of Cuba, where thousands of tourists were evacuated from low-lying keys off the coast dotted with all-inclusive resorts.: photo by Osvaldo Gutierrez Gomez/ACN via AP, 8 September 2017

Over 60 dead after Mexico's strongest quake in 85 years: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 9 September 2017

Found this particularly painful, the "temblor" reasserting its place in the heritage. #MexicoEarthquake #Saragoza #Oaxaca @AFPphoto: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 9 September 2017

A Border Patrol vehicle drives in front of a mural in Tecate, Mexico, just beyond a border structure Friday, Sept. 8, 2017, in Tecate, Calif. French artist JR erected a 65-foot-tall cut-out photo of a Mexican boy by pasting it to scaffolding built in Mexico and is aiming to prompt discussions about immigration. The image overlooks a section of wall on the California border and will be there for a month.: photo by Gregory Bull/AP, 8 September 2017

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It would be comic if problems weren't a mile high, and the relationship w the press wasn't in the tank. Shouting from afar. Photo @WinMc @Getty: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 9 September 2017

President Donald Trump shouts to reporters as he walks with first lady Melania Trump to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017, in Washington.: photo by Evan Vucci/AP, 8 September 2017

A man sits on a lifeguard tower as Hurricane Irma approaches in Hollywood, Florida: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 9 September 2017

A woman walks through a nearly empty passage at Miami International Airport, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017 in Miami. Hurricane Irma scraped Cuba's northern coast Friday on a course toward Florida, leaving in its wake a ravaged string of Caribbean resort islands strewn with splintered lumber, corrugated metal and broken concrete.: photo by Wilfredo Lee/AP, 8 September 2017

A girl ties her home closed with a string as her family leave for a local shelter ahead of Hurricane Irma in Florida: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 9 September 2017

From left-to-right: Katia, Irma, and Jose. Collectively, this is the most active (strength + size) the Atlantic has seen in recorded history.: image via Eric Holthaus @EricHolthaus, 8 September 2017

I must not be sleeping enough, I'm starting to see shapes in the clouds.: image via Marcus Yam @yamphoto, 18 September 2017

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Rootman's Out Of Sight Cafe - Must Be 21. Another club passes into history. [Yazoo City, MS]. Another club passes into history.: photo by Andrew Murr, 9 September 2017

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Rohingya refugees reach for food aid at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhiya near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, August 30, 2017.: photo by AFP/Stringer, 31 August 2017

A Rohingya woman breaks down after a fight erupted during food distribution by local volunteers at Kutupalong, Bangladesh, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017. The massive refugee camp in Kutupalong was set up in the early 90s to accommodate the first waves of Rohingya Muslim refugees who started escaping convulsions of violence and persecution in Myanmar. With the current influx pushing existing Rohingya refugee camps like this one to the brink, Bangladesh pledged to build at least one more. The International Organization for Migration has pleaded for $18 million in foreign aid to help feed and shelter tens of thousands now packed into makeshift settlements or stranded in a no-man's land between the two countries' borders.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 8 September 2017

In this Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017 photo, Myanmar’s Rohingya ethnic minority refugees scuffle for food rations distributed by Bangladeshi volunteers near Cox’s Bazar’s Gundum area, Bangladesh.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 3 September 2017

FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017, file photo, Myanmar's Rohingya ethnic minority refugees walk after crossing the Bangladeshi border near Cox Bazar's Kanjopara area Bangladesh. The U.N. refugee agency is reporting a surge in the number of Rohingya Muslims who have crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar, with an estimated 270,000 arriving in the last two weeks. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

In this Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017, file photo, Myanmar's Rohingya ethnic minority refugees walk after crossing the Bangladeshi border near Cox Bazar's Kanjopara area Bangladesh. The U.N. refugee agency is reporting a surge in the number of Rohingya Muslims who have crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar, with an estimated 270,000 arriving in the last two weeks.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 3 September 2017

Displaced Rohingya refugees from Rakhine state in Myanmar walk near Ukhia, at the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar, as they flee violence on September 4, 2017.: photo by K.M. Asad/AFP, 4 September/ 2017

Broken dishes can be seen in the burned-out remains of a house in Myo Thu Gyi village near Maungdaw, Rakhine State, Myanmar, on August 31, 2017.: photo by AFP/Stringer, 31 August 2017

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96 Tears for the Rohingya

Smoke rises from a burned house in Gawdu Zara village, northern Rakhine state, Myanmar Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. Journalists saw new fires burning Thursday in the Myanmar village that had been abandoned by Rohingya Muslims, and where pages from the Quran were seen ripped and left on the ground.: photo by AP, 7 September 2017

An estimated 270,000 Rohingya have sought refuge in Bangladesh over the past two weeks, U.N. refugee agency says. Photo: Rohingya refugees carry their child as they walk through water after crossing border by boat through the Naf River in Teknaf, Bangladesh. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 8 September 2017

A Rohingya woman comforts her exhausted son as they take shelter inside a school after having just arrived from the Myanmar side of the border at Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. Some 164,000 Rohingya from the area have fled across the border in Bangladesh in less than two weeks since Aug. 25, when Rohingya insurgents attacked police outposts in Gawdu Zara and several others, the U.N. refugee agency said Thursday.: photo by Bernat Armangue, 7 September 2017

What They Carry

Rohingya Mubarak Begum, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, holds a photograph of her family members, in Kutupalong, Bangladesh, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 8 September 2017

What Rohingya carry as they flee Myanmar violence: text by MUNEEZA NAQVI; photos by BERNAT ARMANGUE: AP, 8 September 2017

TEKNAF, Bangladesh (AP) -- Cellphones to reach out to separated relatives. Bags of spices that remind them of home. Solar panels to bring a little light to their ragged tents.

These are some of the things that group upon group of terrified, starving, exhausted ethnic Rohingya Muslims carry with them as they escape the violence that they’ve endured in Myanmar’s Rakhine state over the last two weeks.

In this Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017, photo, a Rohingya Muslim man arrives with a sack of belongings and a kettle tied to a stick as he crosses the border into Bangladesh's Teknaf area.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 7 September 2017

The exodus began Aug. 25, after Rohingya insurgents attacked police posts in Rakhine. The Myanmar government says nearly 400 people have been killed in fighting it blames on insurgents, though Rohingya say Myanmar troops and Buddhist mobs attacked them and destroyed their villages.

They packed a few precious items into used sacks and bamboo baskets, then fled on foot through forests, or on precarious boats on rain-swollen rivers.

In this Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017, photo, a Rohingya Muslim carries vegetables in a vessel after crossing over the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh in Teknaf area.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 7 September 2017

DOCUMENTS

Many carry documents from their life back in Myanmar, wrapped in layers of plastic to protect them from the rain. National ID cards, school ID cards, little bits of laminated paper that prove that even their grandparents lived in that country.

One family brought land and property records, proof of less than an acre of land they bought in 1994. Also proof of their desire to one day return to the place they still call home.

A Rohingya Nur Bashar, who recently crossed over the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh, holds documents of property and land his family owns in Myanmar, in Kutupalong, Bangladesh, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 8 September 2017

SOLAR PANELS

Small solar panels are everywhere in the makeshift refugee camp that has sprouted up to accommodate many of the more than 270,000 people the United Nations says have entered Bangladesh since the violence started.

A little girl carried a panel on her back as she crossed into Teknaf after braving a risky crossing on the Naf River that runs between Myanmar and Bangladesh. The dark-blue-and-white panels are also perched on the plastic roofs of their shelters.

“We got it so that in the dark we can have some light,” said one man.

Others use the solar panel to charge the other possession almost everyone brings.

In this Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017, photo, a Rohingya Muslim child carries a solar panel as she crosses over the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh in Teknaf area.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 7 September 2017

CELLPHONES

Tied in plastic pouches and hung around their necks, or tucked into the waistbands of their wraparounds, cellphones allow Rohingya to reach relatives who arrived in Bangladesh during earlier waves of fear-fueled migrations from Myanmar. They also allow them to reconnect with relatives they became separated from along the tricky journeys that bring them to safety.

In this Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017, photo, a mobile phone is charged by a solar panel brought across the border by a Rohingya in Teknaf area, Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

In this Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017, photo, a mobile phone is charged by a solar panel brought across the border by a Rohingya in Teknaf area, Bangladesh.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 7 September 2017

MEMORY CARDS

Those who don’t carry cellphones still often bring memory cards from their abandoned phones. Some Rohingya said they erased personal photos and videos because they were afraid that Myanmar soldiers would use them to find and persecute their families left behind.

In this Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017, photo, a Rohingya Muslim displays a memory card carried across the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh in Teknaf area. Cellphones to reach out to separated relatives, bags of spices that remind them of home and solar panels to bring a little light to their ragged tents are some of the things the exhausted Rohingya Muslims carry with them as they escape the violence that they’ve endured in Myanmar’s Rakhine state over the last two weeks. Those who don’t carry phones still often bring memory cards from their abandoned ones.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 7 September 2017

SPICES

Food in the camps is scarce. Most people eat only when aid agencies or local volunteers bring bags of food, most often rice and watery curry.

But even in these dire circumstances, many Rohingya have brought with them spices from their homeland: pungent red chilies drying on plastic sheets; fiery chutneys in battered boxes; dried beef in bamboo cases.

“Even if all we get to eat is a plate of rice, we can burn a red chili and mix it and it will taste nice,” says a woman in the Kutupalong refugee camp

In this Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017 photo, red chilis are spread on a plastic sheet carried across the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh by fleeing Rohingya Muslim in Teknaf area.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 7 September 2017

BIRDS

Rohingya had to leave behind the vast majority of their livestock. Cattle now wander among the blackened remains of their incinerated homes.

Some weary travelers, however, managed to tuck a chicken, duck or goose into their bags.

In this Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017 photo, a duck pops its neck out of a bag, carried across the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh by fleeing Rohingya Muslim in Teknaf area.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 7 September 2017

history that inconvenient burden

An open letter from Desmond Tutu to Aung San Su Kyi on #RohingyaMuslims genocide: image via Dr Lauren Gavaghan @DancingTheMind, 8 September 2017

#AungSanSuuKyi is a criminal, if anything she deserves to be totally despised for her silence on atrocities against Rohingya! #HelpRohingya: image via Samiullah Khan @Samiull89711825, 2 September 2017

#AungSanSuuKyi is a lesson in why the #NobelPeacePrize should only be awarded posthumously. #Myanmar #Burma #RohingyaGenocide: image via Habibies @Habibies, 3 September 2017

#TakeNobelBackFromAungSanSuuKyi Take nobel peace prize back from #AungSanSuuKyi. Retweet if u agree: image via Safdar sikandar @safdarjamali12, 5 September 2017

Why is #AungSanSuuKyi not being tried for genocide and crimes against humanity? How long will #Rohingya suffer??: image via ABS @absadir, 4 September

Aung San Suu Kyi during the BBC interview: photo by BBC via The Independent, 25 March 2016

Aung San Suu Kyi made angry 'Muslim' comment after tense exchange with BBC presenter Mishal Husain, it is claimed: Burmese leader reportedly angered by questions about anti-Islamic attitudes in the country: Heather Saul, The Independent, 25 March 2016

Aung San Suu Kyi lost her cool following a tense interview with BBC presenter Mishal Husain and was heard muttering "no one told me I was going to be interviewed by a Muslim", it has been claimed.

The leader of Burma’s National League for Democracy was challenged on anti-Islamic attitudes and violence towards Muslims in Burma, a majority Buddhist nation where Muslims make up just four per cent of the population.

When Husain asked about the plight of Muslims during the 203 interview, Ms Suu Kyi, who is expected to undertake a formal position in power next month, insisted it did not represent “ethnic cleansing”.

“It's a new problem and yet it's linked to old problems as well,” she said.

“I would like to make the point that there are many moderate Muslims in Burma who have been well integrated into our society, but these problems arose last year and I think this is due to fear on both sides.

"This is what the world needs to understand; that the fear is not just to the side of the Muslims but on the side of the Buddhists as well.”

Husain pressed her to accept that the “vast majority” of victims of violence had been Muslim.

And according to an excerpt in the book by Peter Popham, The Lady And The Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi And Burma’s Struggle For Freedom, Suu Kyi was so incensed about being challenged that she reportedly said off-air: “No one told me I was going to be interviewed by a Muslim."

Zardari and PPP leaders honoured this woman #AungSanSuuKyi who is killing Muslims in #Myanmar #Burma #RohingyaMuslims: image via Malik Zubair Awan @ZubairSabirPTI, 3 September 2017

Expose Gen Min Aung Hlaing, the com-in-chief, who is the real power behind the #EthnicCleansing of #Rohingya in #Burma: image via Mezanur Rashid @MezanurRashid, 8 September 2017

hunger, little hope

In this Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017 photo, 25-year-old Rohingya Muslim woman Zahida Begum cradles her few-hours-old son who she gave birth to alone in the toilet outside the room, at Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh. Begum had crossed into Bangladesh on Sept. 1, with her two young sons, husband and mother, fleeing shootings and arson attacks by Myanmar army soldiers and local monks. Through hours of walking through this massive refugee camp, set up in the early 90s to accommodate the first waves of Rohingya Muslim refugees who started escaping convulsions of violence and persecution in Myanmar, Associated Press reporters could not spot a single doctor. There are no clinics or pharmacies or even basic first aid centers.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 7 September 2017

Fleeing Rohingya face hunger, little hope in Bangladesh camp: Muneeza Naqvi, AP, 8 September 2017

KUTUPALONG REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh (AP) — In a corner of a room in a sprawling expanse of squalid shanties and tents, Zahida Begum holds in her arms the tiny boy she gave birth to just hours ago. Her eyes are blank.

The 25-year-old ethnic Rohingya Muslim crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar on Sept. 1 with her two young sons, husband and mother, fleeing shootings and arson attacks by Myanmar soldiers and Buddhist monks, her family says.

Having spent all their money on smugglers who helped them cross the Naf river to safety, she now sits afraid and unsure of what will come next.

The massive Kutupalong refugee camp of tiny mud houses covered with plastic sheets, with its overpowering stench of rotting food and feces, is now her home.

She gave birth alone, in the toilet outside the room, says her mother, Dildar Begum. The baby has not been fed since his birth 10 hours ago. She’s feverish and shivers so much that her mother lit a small, smoky fire to warm her up. She is still bleeding from the birth.

No doctor is in sight in the camp, set up in the early 1990s to accommodate earlier waves of Muslim Rohingya refugees escaping from convulsions of violence and persecution in Buddhist-majority Myanmar. There are no clinics or pharmacies or even basic first aid centers.

New arrivals like Begum and her family survive on the kindness of older refugees and on food handouts from local volunteers and aid groups: rice and curry once a day if they are lucky.

“She’s been crying from hunger,” her mother said of her weak and ailing daughter. Begum simply stares.

Myanmar’s government refuses to recognize Rohingya as a minority group and denies them citizenship, even though about 1 million were living there until two weeks ago and many families had been there for generations.

The exodus of Rohingya like Begum into neighboring Bangladesh is massive in scale. The United Nations says 270,000 have crossed over since Aug. 25. But it’s really impossible to accurately count how many have come.

Every single day thousands upon thousands enter Bangladesh. They cross the Naf river that runs between Myanmar and Bangladesh on rickety wooden boats. The journey is especially dangerous now because the river is swollen from months of monsoon rains. Others cross the land border between the two countries, walking for days through forests to escape detection.

In Bangladesh, one of the world’s poorest and most crowded countries, these people say they finally feel safe. But hunger and illness are a constant presence.

With the influx pushing existing Rohingya refugee camps like this one to the brink, Bangladesh has pledged to build at least one more. But it’s unclear when that will happen.

“Our teams are seeing streams of people arriving destitute and extremely traumatized,” including many in need of urgent medical care for violence-related injuries, the aid group Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, said in a statement.

The International Organization for Migration has pleaded for $18 million in donations to help feed and shelter tens of thousands now packed into makeshift settlements or stranded in a no-man’s land between the two countries’ borders.

In the Kutupalong camp, reporters saw several newly arrived children burning with high fevers. At the Cox’s Bazar district government hospital, four Rohingya men with gunshot wounds described Myanmar soldiers entering their villages and randomly opening fire. The hospital said it was treating 31 other men with gunshot wounds.

Myanmar’s government has denied any abuses by its troops and instead says it is fighting terrorists. It says a group of Rohingya insurgents and villagers themselves set fire to their own homes in Rakhine state.

It offers no explanation of why an already miserable and impoverished group of people would destroy their own homes and exhaust their meagre savings to take treacherous journeys to an unknown land for a life of extreme uncertainty.

In the camps it’s often hard to separate the anguish of the new arrivals from the suffering of those who have been here for years or decades.

Outside Begum’s room a young Rohingya man stands, holding back tears.

Kutupalong camp is the only home 22-year-old Farid has ever known. He was born here to parents who were part of the first wave of refugees to flee Myanmar.

He says life in the wretched place makes him doubt his faith in God.

He did not want to give his last name or be photographed because he has enrolled in a local school using fake Bangladeshi documents. As a refugee he is only given education up to the fifth grade.

“There is nothing, nothing here ... no doctors, clean water, education,” he said, rage and helplessness coursing through his skinny body.

He wants to be a doctor. He wants to break out of the cycle of misery his people have been trapped in for decades.

He flits between hope and despair, sometimes in the same sentence.

What of the tens of thousands of new refugees who are putting incredible pressure on the already teeming camp?

“These are my people. I’m also a Rohingya,” he said. “I want to help them, but I cannot.”

On Friday afternoon, two infants were interred in the cemetery that has grown on the edge of the camp.

A 6-day-old baby, born on the road as his family escaped, was buried next to a 2-day-old child born to a long-time resident.

In this Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017 photo, 25-year-old Rohingya Muslim woman Zahida Begum cradles her few-hours-old son who she gave birth to alone in the toilet outside the room, as her husband Abdur Rahman mixes a plate of rice for his wife at Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh. Rahman had to leave his ailing wife and go search for food. He came back with the plate of rice and small bowl of curry. That food is the first food his wife and son shared all day.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 7 September 2017

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Rohingya men dig a grave in Kutupalong’s refugee camp’s cemetery, Bangladesh, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017. This massive refugee camp was set up in the early 90s to accommodate the first waves of Rohingya Muslim refugees who started escaping convulsions of violence and persecution in Myanmar. With the current influx pushing existing Rohingya refugee camps like this one to the brink, Bangladesh pledged to build at least one more. The International Organization for Migration has pleaded for $18 million in foreign aid to help feed and shelter tens of thousands now packed into makeshift settlements or stranded in a no-man’s land between the two countries’ borders.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 8 September 2017

A Rohingya man holds the body of a two-day-old baby before his burial at Kutupalong’s refugee camp cemetery, Bangladesh, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017. This massive refugee camp was set up in the early 90s to accommodate the first waves of Rohingya Muslim refugees who started escaping convulsions of violence and persecution in Myanmar. The current influx is pushing existing Rohingya refugee camps like this one to the brink. Nowhere is this more apparent than the cemetery that has sprouted on one edge of the camp. On Friday, two infants were interred there. A six- day old baby, who was born on the road as his family escaped, was buried next to the two-day-old child born to a woman from the old camp.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 8 September 2017

In this Sept. 5, 2017 photo, newly arrived Rohingya rest in a makeshift tent in Kutupalong, Bangladesh. This massive refugee camp was set up in the early 90s to accommodate the first waves of Rohingya Muslim refugees who started escaping convulsions of violence and persecution in Myanmar. With the current influx pushing existing Rohingya refugee camps like this one to the brink, Bangladesh pledged to build at least one more. The International Organization for Migration has pleaded for $18 million in foreign aid to help feed and shelter tens of thousands now packed into makeshift settlements or stranded in a no-man’s land between the two countries’ borders.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 5 September 2017

In this Sept. 5, 2017 photo, bamboo for building tents are sold at Kutupalong, Bangladesh. A massive refugee camp in Kutupalong was set up in the early 90s to accommodate the first waves of Rohingya Muslim refugees who started escaping convulsions of violence and persecution in Myanmar. With the current influx pushing existing Rohingya refugee camps like this one to the brink, Bangladesh pledged to build at least one more. The International Organization for Migration has pleaded for $18 million in foreign aid to help feed and shelter tens of thousands now packed into makeshift settlements or stranded in a no-man’s land between the two countries’ borders.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 5 September 2017

In this Sept. 3, 2017 photo, Rohingya children play during Eid at Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh. This massive refugee camp was set up in the early 90s to accommodate the first waves of Rohingya Muslim refugees who started escaping convulsions of violence and persecution in Myanmar. With the current influx pushing existing Rohingya refugee camps like this one to the brink, Bangladesh pledged to build at least one more. The International Organization for Migration has pleaded for $18 million in foreign aid to help feed and shelter tens of thousands now packed into makeshift settlements or stranded in a no-man’s land between the two countries’ borders.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 3 September 2017

Rohingya Muslims, who have recently crossed over the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh, offer Friday prayers at a makeshift mosque in Kutupalong Refugee Camp, Bangladesh, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017. The massive refugee camp in Kutupalong was set up in the early 90s to accommodate the first waves of Rohingya Muslim refugees who started escaping convulsions of violence and persecution in Myanmar. With the current influx pushing existing Rohingya refugee camps like this one to the brink, Bangladesh pledged to build at least one more. The International Organization for Migration has pleaded for $18 million in foreign aid to help feed and shelter tens of thousands now packed into makeshift settlements or stranded in a no-man’s land between the two countries’ borders.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 8 September 2017

Rohingya children, who are older settlers at the camp, sell cane at Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. This massive refugee camp was set up in the early 90s to accommodate the first waves of Rohingya Muslim refugees who started escaping convulsions of violence and persecution in Myanmar. With the current influx pushing existing Rohingya refugee camps like this one to the brink, Bangladesh pledged to build at least one more. The International Organization for Migration has pleaded for $18 million in foreign aid to help feed and shelter tens of thousands now packed into makeshift settlements or stranded in a no-man’s land between the two countries’ borders.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 7 September 2017

In this Monday, Sept. 4, 2017 photo, a Rohingya man Kefayet Ullah stands next to the graves of his 25-year-old brother Jarullah and 21-year-old sister-in-law Ayesha Bibi at a makeshift cemetery near Cox’s Bazar’s Tumbru area, Bangladesh. The family had already been in their hasty shelter on the mud bank near Naf River for days before Jarullah and Bibi decided to go slip back across the border to their village in Myanmar briefly for a quick bath and clean clothes before Eid, only to be killed by Myanmar soldiers and Buddhist monks in an attack witnessed by their cousin. Ullah said he couldn’t bear the thought of leaving his loved ones behind, and so risked his life to return and carry their bodies back so they could bury them in peace.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 4 September 2017

Seeking home’s comforts, Rohingya couple make deadly choice: Muneeza Naqvi, AP, 6 September 2017

BANDARBAN, Bangladesh (AP) — The young Rohingya couple fleeing violence in Myanmar had escaped with their family to nearby Bangladesh, where they spent days living in a hastily built shelter on a muddy hill. For the sake of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, they decided to return home briefly, for a quick bath and clean clothes.

The man’s brother soon followed them — to retrieve their bodies.

“Kefayet Ullah’s brother has been slaughtered near the fence!” a man shouts in a cellphone video as a cousin carries Jarullah’s body, blood from the corpse pouring down his back. “They cut his hands and legs and belly also.”

Kefayet Ullah carried his dead sister-in-law. Wailing and moans — “Oh, Allah!” — can be heard in the video as the group encounters villagers along the wooded path.

Ullah said he couldn’t bear the thought of leaving his loved ones behind, and so risked his life to bring back their bodies so they could be buried in peace. There was also one life left to save: the couple’s 2-year-old son, who was found near his parents’ bodies.

Like untold numbers of people, Ullah and his family have been caught up in the latest violence to ravage Rohingya villages in northern Rakhine state, in the northwest corner of majority-Buddhist Myanmar. Many have seen their homes burned to the ground. More than 120,000 have fled for safety in neighboring Bangladesh in less than two weeks since the violence began.

The Myanmar government said it conducted security “clearance operations” to root out Rohingya insurgents who attacked at least two dozen police posts with machetes and rifles.

Rohingya see the violence that followed the insurgent attacks as something more: a campaign to rid the country of a minority seen by Myanmar’s authorities as unwanted outsiders. They were denied citizenship and rights by the country’s former military rulers. And life has only gotten worse for many since an elected government headed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi took over.

On Aug. 28, three days after the violence began, Ullah and his family fled, leaving behind their ancestral home, a shop and 10 acres of farmland.

“The government ordered the military to come to our villages and to shoot the people who were older than 8,” Ullah said in a small forest clearing near the refugee-packed seaside city of Bandarban where he buried his brother and sister-in-law.

Two simple mounds of earth marked the spot. He brushed fallen leaves from the unmarked graves.

In some areas, he said, “they started attacking people and raping the girls and women. They were burning down the houses.”

He paused to fill in holes left in the earth by the hooves of cattle that had wandered through the makeshift cemetery. Across the road, his parents, pregnant wife and three sons huddled under a sheet of plastic propped haphazardly up on bamboo poles.

For the moment, they are safe — one of many families occupying a muddy patch sticking out of the Naf River in what is essentially a no-man’s-land between the borders of Myanmar and Bangladesh. But Ullah said he wasn’t sure how long they could manage in their squalid shelter. There is no clean water, and no access to toilets.

Refugee camps in Bangladesh have filled beyond capacity, and tens of thousands are squatting in the open. Meanwhile, Rohingya continue to pour in through several open areas along the barbed-wire border fence, or aboard smugglers’ rickety wooden boats.

Even now, the family yearns to go back to their village near the border, the only home Ullah has known.

“Even my grandfather’s father was born there,” he said. But said he has realized they may never return. Ultra-nationalist Buddhist monks call his people “Bengali” — meant as a derogatory term implying they were illegal immigrants from neighboring Bangladesh.

“The monks say that we came from Bangladesh and India. They say you are not the people of this land. ‘You go from this place,’” he said.

“They think, ’If we burn down Rohingya houses and kill the Rohingya people and slit their throats, then the number of Rohingya people will decrease,’” he said, his voice breaking. “That’s why they say there’s no need to give us citizenship.”

Ullah’s home in Maungdaw township is fairly close to the barbed-wire fence that marks much of the Myanmar-Bangladesh border. In other places, the Naf River separates the countries.

The home was close enough that Jarullah, 25, and his 21-year-old wife, Ayesha Bibi, decided to return Saturday morning.

Kefayet Ullah said Jarullah called within minutes of their return and told him soldiers and monks had surrounded their home.

Then, the phone went silent.

Ullah said a terrified cousin managed to escape behind some bushes and watched. He told Ullah the mob first looted the house of its valuables, then killed the couple after demanding money and gold from them.

Ullah said he felt he had no choice but to bring the bodies back. He and his cousin snuck across the border once again to do it.

They buried them later Saturday, the main day of Eid al-Adha.

In this Monday, Sept. 4, 2017 photo, a man holds up a cell phone displaying an image of 25-year-old Rohingya Muslim man Jarullah and his 21-year-old wife Ayesha Bibi near Cox’s Bazar’s Tumbru area, Bangladesh. The family had already been in their hasty shelter on the mud bank near Naf River for days before Jarullah and Bibi decided to go slip back across the border to their village in Myanmar briefly for a quick bath and clean clothes before Eid, only to be killed by Myanmar soldiers and Buddhist monks in an attack witnessed by their cousin. Jarullah’s brother Kefayet Ullah said he couldn’t bear the thought of leaving his loved ones behind, and so risked his life to return and carry their bodies back so they could bury them in peace.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 4 September 2017

In this image made from Sept. 2, 2017, video, the body of Jarullah Ullah is carried through a field in Maungdaw, Myanmar, after he and his wife were killed in violence ravaging Rohingya villages in northern Rakhine state, in the northwest corner of majority-Buddhist Myanmar. Like untold numbers of people, this family has been caught up in the latest violence in Rohingya villages in Myanmar.: photo by AP, 2 September 2017

In this image made from Sept. 4, 2017, video, Kefayet Ullah speaks about how his brother and sister-in-law were killed in violence ravaging Rohingya villages in northern Rakhine state, in the northwest corner of majority-Buddhist Myanmar. Like untold numbers of people, this family has been caught up in the latest violence in Rohingya villages in Myanmar.: photo by AP, 4 September 2017

In this image made from Sept. 4, 2017, video, Kefayet Ullah wipes his eyes as he speaks in Bandarban, Bangladesh, about how his brother and sister-in-law were killed in violence ravaging Rohingya villages in northern Rakhine state, in the northwest corner of majority-Buddhist Myanmar. Like untold numbers of people, this family has been caught up in the latest violence in Rohingya villages in Myanmar.: photo by AP, 4 September 2017

Smoke rises from a burned house in Gawdu Zara village, northern Rakhine state, Myanmar Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. Journalists saw new fires burning Thursday in the Myanmar village that had been abandoned by Rohingya Muslims, and where pages from Islamic texts were seen ripped and left on the ground.: photo by AP, 7 September 2017

New fires in empty Rohingya village challenge Myanmar claims: AP, 8 September 2017

BANGKOK (AP) — Journalists saw new fires burning Thursday in a Myanmar village that had been abandoned by Rohingya Muslims, and pages ripped from Islamic texts that were left on the ground. That intensifies doubts about government claims that members of the persecuted minority have been destroying their own homes.

About two dozen journalists saw the fires in Gawdu Zara village in northern Rakhine state on a government-controlled trip.

About 164,000 Rohingya from the area have fled across the border into Bangladesh in less than two weeks since Aug. 25, when Rohingya insurgents attacked police outposts in Gawdu Zara and several other villages, the U.N. refugee agency said Thursday.

The military has said nearly 400 people, mostly Rohingya, have died in clashes and that troops were conducting “clearance operations.” It blames insurgents for setting the villages on fire, without offering proof.

Rohingya who have fled Myanmar, however, have described large-scale violence perpetrated by Myanmar troops and Buddhist mobs — setting fire to their homes, spraying bullets indiscriminately, stabbing civilians and ordering them to abandon their homes or be killed.

On the Myanmar side of the border, reporters saw no Rohingya in any of the five destroyed villages they were allowed to tour Thursday, making it unlikely they could have been responsible for the new fires.

An ethnic Rakhine villager who emerged from the smoke said police and Rakhine Buddhists had set the fires. The villager ran off before he could be asked anything else.

No police were seen in the village beyond those who were accompanying the journalists. But about 10 Rakhine men with machetes were seen there. They looked nervous and the only one who spoke said he had just arrived and did not know how the fires started.

They are Human, Please stop killing them #rohingya!!! #myanmar #StopKillingRohingya #Rakhine: image via Khurshid Hasan @khurshid2hasan, 8 September 2017

Among the buildings on fire was a madrassa, an Islamic school. Copies of books with texts from the Quran, Islam’s holy book, were torn up and thrown outside.

A nearby mosque was not burned.

Another village the journalists visited, Ah Lel Than Kyaw, was blackened, obliterated and deserted. Cattle and dogs wandered through the still-smoldering remains.

Local police officer Aung Kyaw Moe said 18 people were killed in the village when the violence began last month.

“From our side, there was one immigration officer dead, and we found 17 dead bodies from the enemy side,” he said.

He said the fires were set Aug. 25, though some continued to burn Thursday.

This combination of images shows two infrared satellite maps; Jan. 30, 2014, top; and Sept. 2, 2017, bottom; displaying the town of Maungdaw, Myanmar. According to Human Rights Watch, the map on bottom shows predominantly Rohingya homes that were recently destroyed.: photo by Human Rights Watch via AP, 2014/2017

Virtually all buildings in the village seen by journalists had been burned, along with cars, motorbikes and bicycles that fleeing villagers left behind. A mosque was also damaged.

Columns of smoke could be seen rising in the distance, and distant gunshots could be heard.

“They burned their own houses and ran away,” Aung Kyaw Moe said. “We didn’t see who actually burned them because we had to take care of the security for our outpost. ... But when the houses were burned, Bengalis were the only ones in the village.”

Buddhist-majority Myanmar refers to Rohingya as Bengalis, contending they migrated illegally from Bangladesh, though many Rohingya families have lived in Myanmar for generations.

Burning the homes of Rohingya can make it less likely they will return. Tens of thousands of Rohingya were driven from their homes in another wave of violence in 2012. Many are now confined to camps, while the land they once held is either vacant or occupied by Buddhist squatters.

Nay San Lwin, a Rohingya activist and blogger based in Europe with contacts in northern Rakhine, said that according to witnesses, the Myanmar military, border guard police and Rakhine villagers came to Ah Lel Than Kyaw and burned the houses from Monday to Wednesday.

On Aug. 25, he said, young men with swords and knives tried to attack the border guard outpost in Aley Than Kyaw but failed. The authorities took away all Buddhist villagers, and many Rohingya villagers fled on their own.

Nay San Lwin said the remaining villagers left after the military warned them they would be shot if they did not leave.

Myanmar’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has dismissed the Rohingya crisis as a misinformation campaign.

According to her office, she said such misinformation helps promote the interests of “terrorists,” a reference to the Rohingya insurgents who attacked security posts on Aug. 25.

The crisis response director for Amnesty International called Suu Kyi’s response “unconscionable.”

On Thursday, Suu Kyi told reporters her government was working to improve security and livelihoods for Rohingya, but that “it’s a little unreasonable to expect us to resolve everything in 18 months” since her administration took office.

With Rohingya fleeing by the thousands daily across the border, pushing existing camps in Bangladesh to the brink, the government in Dhaka pledged to build at least one more.

The International Organization for Migration has pleaded for $18 million in foreign aid to help feed and shelter tens of thousands now packed into makeshift settlements or stranded in a no man’s land between the two countries’ borders.

U.N. agencies said they were distributing food to new arrivals, about 80 percent of whom were women and children, joining about 100,000 who had already been sheltering in Bangladesh after fleeing earlier convulsions of violence in Myanmar.

Aid workers said many were arriving with violence-related injuries, severe infections or childbirth complications.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Thursday that her country offered refuge to Rohingya on humanitarian grounds, but called it a “big burden for us”.

The “international community must take the responsibility,” she said.

Hasina’s government has taken an initiative to identify the refugees to prevent terrorists from entering Bangladesh under disguise, the local Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha news agency reported, quoting the prime minister’s Press secretary Ihsanul Karim.

With so many Rohingya fleeing, it is unclear how many remain in Myanmar amid reports of soldiers burning villages and killing civilians.

Before the recent violence, aid experts estimated about 1 million Rohingya were living in northern Rakhine state. But aid agencies have been unable to access the area since.

Turkish First Lady Emine Erdogan and Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu visited a Rohingya camp in Bangladesh and then met with Hasina.

They said Myanmar agreed to allow its aid officials to enter Rakhine state with a ton of food and goods for Rohingya. They also pledged continuing support for the Rohingya.

Houses are on fire in Gawdu Zara village, northern Rakhine state, Myanmar, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. Journalists saw new fires burning Thursday in the Myanmar village that had been abandoned by Rohingya Muslims, and where pages from Islamic texts were seen ripped and left on the ground.: photo by AP, 7 September 2017

A Rohingya woman is carried in a cloth sling as she arrives at Kutupalong refugee camp after having just crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. With Rohingya fleeing by the thousands daily across the border, pushing existing camps in Bangladesh to the brink, the government in Dhaka pledged to build at least one more. The International Organization for Migration has pleaded for $18 million in foreign aid to help feed and shelter tens of thousands now packed into makeshift settlements or stranded in a no man’s land between the two countries’ borders.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 7 September 2017

Washed clothes belonging to Rohingya are spread out to dry on bushes near Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. With Rohingya fleeing by the thousands daily across the border, pushing existing camps in Bangladesh to the brink, the government in Dhaka pledged to build at least one more. The International Organization for Migration has pleaded for $18 million in foreign aid to help feed and shelter tens of thousands now packed into makeshift settlements or stranded in a no man’s land between the two countries’ borders.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 7 September 2017

An elderly Rohingya hangs washed clothes after having just crossed from Myanmar into the Bangladesh side of the border by walking through muddy rice fields at Teknaf border area, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. With Rohingya fleeing by the thousands daily across the border, pushing existing camps in Bangladesh to the brink, the government in Dhaka pledged to build at least one more. The International Organization for Migration has pleaded for $18 million in foreign aid to help feed and shelter tens of thousands now packed into makeshift settlements or stranded in a no man’s land between the two countries’ borders.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 7 September 2017

In this Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017, file photo, fire engulfs homes in the Gawdu Zara village, northern Rakhine state, Myanmar. Two weeks after violence in western Myanmar caused minority Rohingya Muslims to flee into neighboring Bangladesh, global reactions to the crisis have included anger, protests in Islamic country capitals and dismissals by Myanmar authorities.: photo by AP 7 September 2017

‘Alarming number’ of 270,000 Rohingya flee Myanmar, UN reports: Muneeza Naqvi, AP, 8 September 2017

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh — The U.N. said Friday that an “alarming number” of 270,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled violence in Myanmar by crossing into Bangladesh in the last two weeks.

The new figure confirmed Friday by U.N. Refugee Agency spokeswoman Vivian Tan is much higher than the 164,000 the agency had previously estimated had arrived since Aug. 25.

“This is an alarming number,” Tan said. “The existing camps are full to the capacity. There is a lot of pressure on relief agencies to accommodate the rising numbers.”

She said the new number was still a “rough estimate,” and based on an assessment that involved a host of aid agencies operating in the area. Some aid groups also had identified “new pockets of people that we did not know about before, mainly in villages” where Bangladeshi communities had taken them in, but also some new settlements and clusters in difficult-to-access areas.

Makeshift camps were quickly appearing and expanding along roadsides, Tan said.

She said it was possible some people who received help from multiple agencies could have been counted twice.

The exodus from Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state began Aug. 25 after Rohingya insurgents attacked police posts. The military responded with what it called “clearance operations” to root out any fighters it said might be hiding in villages of Rakhine state.

The Myanmar government says nearly 400 people have been killed in fighting it blames on insurgents, though Rohingya say they Myanmar troops and Buddhist mobs attacked them and destroyed their villages.

It’s not known how many Rohingya remain in Rakhine state. Previously the population had been thought to be roughly 1 million.

Journalists in northern Rakhine state saw active fires in areas Rohingya had abandoned, adding to doubts over government claims that Rohingya themselves were responsible for setting them.

Associated Press reporters who have been in Rohingya camps all week saw a surge in the number of people entering Bangladesh on Thursday and Friday.

An increasing number of Rohingya were also arriving by boat, with 300 boats reaching the Bangladesh town of Cox’s Bazar from Myanmar on Wednesday alone, according to the International Organization for Migration.

“Sea routes are particularly dangerous this time of year, when boats are known to frequently capsize in rough seas,” the IOM said in a statement.

Dozens of Rohingya have died in capsizings since the exodus began, and there are other dangers as well. On Monday, the AP saw an elderly woman whose leg had been blown off when she set off a land mine.

Land mines were planted years ago along parts of the border. Bangladeshi officials say Myanmar soldiers have planted new explosives since the latest wave of violence began, though the Myanmar military denies it.

“It may not be land mines, but I know there have been isolated cases of Myanmar soldiers planting explosives three to four days ago,” Lt. Col. S.M. Ariful Islam, commanding officer of the Bangladesh border guard in Teknaf, said Friday. He added that he was aware of at least three Rohingya injured in explosions.

There are now massive crowds of Rohingya in the streets of towns including Cox’s Bazar and Teknaf, with relatively few soldiers or police and even fewer signs of aid agencies.

At a small makeshift mosque made of bamboo sticks and plastic sheets, a small group of new arrivals offered prayers Friday, the holiest day of the week in Islam.

Later, members of a local organization were seen distributing aid, throwing packets of puffed rice and old clothes into huge crowds of Rohingya. There are no clearly organized points of distribution.

Tan, of the refugee agency, said it was distributing aid through a local organization that preferred to keep a low profile.

U.N. agencies have released $8 million in emergency aid in the area, but were pleading for millions more.

Between Oct 91-Dec 92, 270,000 #Rohingya fled #Myanmar to #Bangladesh. In 2017 it only took 14 days for same number of refugees to arrive.: image via Tirana Hassan @TiranaHassan, 9 September 2017

#UN has confirmed refugee count is now 270,000 in Bangladesh. This is what it looks like driving through Teknaf. #RohingyaCrisis #Rohingya: image via Tania Rashid @TaniaRashid9, 10 September 2017

An injured Rohingya Mohammad Salim, 60, receives treatment after crossing over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, at Chittagong Medical College Hospital in Chittagong, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017. The U.N. refugee agency is reporting a surge in the number of Rohingya Muslims who have crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar, with an estimated 270,000 arriving in the last two weeks.: photo by A.M. Ahad/AP, 8 September 2017

Stats day 15: UN official says more than 1,000 people killed | 270.000 fled to Bangladesh | #Rohinygya @UN @Refugees: image via Ika Ferrer Gotic @IkaFerrerGotic, 8 September 2017

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Saturday, 9 September 2017

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What They Carry

What Rohingya carry as they flee Myanmar violence: text by MUNEEZA NAQVI; photos by BERNAT ARMANGUE: AP, 8 September 2017

SPICES

history that inconvenient burden

‘Alarming number’ of 270,000 Rohingya flee Myanmar, UN reports: Muneeza Naqvi, AP, 8 September 2017

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