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zReportage.com Story of the Week # 663 - Running Out Of Time: Monsoon Threatens Rohingya - Launched April 10, 2018 - Full multimedia experience: audio, stills, text and or video: Go to zReportage.com to see more - Since August 2017, more than 600,000 Rohingya refugees have arrived in Bangladesh to escape persecution in Myanmar and is becoming the world's fastest growing refugee crisis. This Muslim minority denounces that the army and radical Buddhists of the border country burn their villages and attack them with machetes and firearms. According to Medecins Sans Frontieres, nearly 7000 Rohingyas have died in Myanmar since last August. In the words of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the Rohingya people are being victimized by ''an ethnic cleansing manual''. In spite of the dimension of the tragedy, it is happening before the passive gaze of the international community. The Rohingya, who numbered around one million in Myanmar at the start of 2017, are one of the many ethnic minorities living in the country. Rohingya Muslims represent the largest percentage of Muslims in Myanmar, and the majority live in Rakhine state. They have their own language and culture and claim their descendants have been in the region for generations. But the government of Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist country, denies the Rohingya citizenship and even excluded them from the 2014 census, refusing to recognize them as a people. It sees them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. The changing seasons of the subcontinent are about to bring further suffering upon the already persecuted population that has fled to Bangladesh. Now they must prepare for the onset of the monsoon, the flooding that follows.
© ZUMA Press photographer Olmo Calvo was awarded a POYi 2018 Award of Excellence for his work 'Rohingyas, Flee from Genocide.' http://poyi.org/75/R1075/ae02.php
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September 24, 2017 - Coxs Bazar, Bangladesh - SHAHEDA is 40 years old and her body burned because she said the Myanmar army set fire to her village to expel all the Rohingyas. She recovered from her injuries at a hospital in Cox's Bazar.
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October 1, 2017 - Shah Porir Dwip, Coxs Bazar, Bangladesh - The beach of Shah Porir Dwip, in the South of Bangladesh, is filled with footsteps near the Naf River. Rohingyas are fleeing to escape from persecution in Myanmar.
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September 22, 2017 - Coxs Bazar, Bangladesh - Rohingya refugees ask for food during a food distribution of an NGO in the Balukhali camp.
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October 1, 2017 - Shah Porir Dwip, Coxs Bazar, Bangladesh - An exhausted woman lying on the beach of Shah Porir Dwip, in the South of Bangladesh, after she crossed Naf River to escape from the persecution of the Rohingyas in Myanmar.
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September 26, 2017 - Coxs Bazar, Bangladesh - Scene of the Balukhali refugee camp at sunset. From August more than 600,000 Rohingyas arrived in Bangladesh fleeing from persecution in Myanmar. Most settle in the fields of the south of the country, completely overflowing and without resources.
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September 23, 2017 - Shah Porir Dwip, Coxs Bazar, Bangladesh - A man carries two small children in his arms after disembarking at Shah Porir Dwip, in southern Bangladesh. Rohingyas travel at night because it is easier to cross the border without being discovered.
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October 1, 2017 - Shah Porir Dwip, Coxs Bazar, Bangladesh - A boat full of women and children shortly after reaching the shores of southern Bangladesh, in Shah Porir Dwip. They flee their villages in Myanmar and cross the Naf River in fishing boats.
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October 1, 2017 - Shah Porir Dwip, Coxs Bazar, Bangladesh - A man hugs his wife moments after getting off the boat and crossing the Naf River, escaping from the persecution of his people in Myanmar.
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October 3, 2017 - Balukhali, Coxs Bazar, Bangladesh - Dozens of boys and girls in a school in the Balukhali refugee camp.
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September 29, 2017 - Coxs Bazar, Bangladesh - Residents of the town of Inani Beach carry bodies to bury them. 15 bodies were found on Inani Beach. They were Rohingyas who died trying to flee by boat from Myanmar.
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September 28, 2017 - Coxs Bazar, Bangladesh - Dozens of men wait in the rain for something to eat in the Balukhali refugee camp. Different NGOs distribute food daily, but there are so many people that in some places there are big queues. Bangladeshi Army soldiers and volunteers make sure no one skips their turn forcing the refugees to remain seated.
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October 3, 2017 - Balukhali, Coxs Bazar, Bangladesh - Several men cross a small bridge in Balukhali refugee camp. Since August 2017, more than 600,000 people have arrived in Bangladesh fleeing persecution of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar.
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