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The Long and Bloody History of Myanmar’s Rohingya Refugee Crisis

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Chris Steele-Perkins BANGLADESH. Rohinga refugees from Myanmar (Burma). Young and old are carried ashore in Bangladesh after fleeing from Burmese persecution. 1992. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins Burmese refuges carry their belongings to the registration centre in Teknaf. Bangladesh. 1992. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins The longest established of the Burmese refugee camps in Buram, Dechua 1, has shelter well organised. Bangladesh. 1992. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins Bangladesh. Muslim Burmese women in a refugee camp in Bangladesh wearing traditional Rohingya headgear. 1992. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins BANGLADESH. These two Burmese refugee families live under these branches in a camp in Bangladesh. The woman on the left holding the baby is 50 years old and was raped by the Burmese soldiers. 1992. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins BANGLADESH. A young boy taking a wash in a refugee camp. 1992. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins In a field hospital in one of the camps for Burmese refugees, established by the Bangladeshi relief agency 'Gonoshathaya Kendra'. Bangladesh. 1992. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins Local Chin children. Chin State, Haka, Myanmar. 2014. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR. Yangon. 2014. Young Buddhist nuns sleep on a train. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins An old lady in a field hospital in a refugee camp. The hospital was established by a Bangladeshi relief organisation 'Gonoshathaya Kendra'. Bangladesh. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR. 2014. near MRAUK U. Rakhine State. Chin peoples' villages along the Limro River. Traditionally women had tatooed faces, but the younger generation does not want to. Some villages now suppo (...)
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR. 2014. near MRAUK U. Rakhine State. Chin peoples' villages along the Limro River. Traditionally women had tatooed faces, but the younger generation does not want to. Some villages now suppo (...)
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR. 2014. YANGON. Bengali Sunni Jameh Mosque in centre of city. Madrassa, Koranic classes for children. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR. 2014. YANGON. Bengali Sunni Jameh Mosque in centre of city. Madrassa, Koranic classes for children. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins Painting of Aung San Suu Kyi. Art exhibition in grounds of a hotel. Mandalay, Myanmar. 2014. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR. 2014. YANGON. Muslim girl. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR. 2014. YANGON. Preparing or a Buddhist monk to lecture publically. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR. 2014. SITTWE. Rakhine State. Local area where a number of camps have been set up for the Internally Displaced People - all Muslim, who were attacked by the local Arakan people who do not (...)
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR. 2014. SITTWE. Rakhine State. Local area where a number of camps have been set up for the Internally Displaced People - all Muslim, who were attacked by the local Arakan people who do not (...)
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR. 2014. SITTWE. Rakhine State. Local area where a number of camps have been set up for the Internally Displaced People - all Muslim, who were attacked by the local Arakan people who do not (...)
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR. 2014. SITTWE. Rakhine State. Local area where a number of camps have been set up for the Internally Displaced People - all Muslim, who were attacked by the local Arakan people who do not (...)
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR. 2014. SITTWE. Rakhine State. Local area where a number of camps have been set up for the Internally Displaced People - all Muslim, who were attacked by the local Arakan people who do not (...)
Chris Steele-Perkins Fishing for small fish in a pond. Local area where a number of camps have been set up for the Internally Displaced People - all Muslim, who were attacked by the local Arakan people who do not want (...)
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR. 2014. SITTWE. Rakhine State. Local area where a number of camps have been set up for the Internally Displaced People - all Muslim, who were attacked by the local Arakan people who do not (...)
Chris Steele-Perkins Local area where a number of camps have been set up for the Internally Displaced People - all Muslim, who were attacked by the local Arakan people who do not want them living in Myanmar. Muslim fi (...)
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR. 2014. SITTWE. Rakhine State. Local area where a number of camps have been set up for the Internally Displaced People - all Muslim, who were attacked by the local Arakan people who do not (...)
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR. 2014. SITTWE. Rakhine State. Local area where a number of camps have been set up for the Internally Displaced People - all Muslim, who were attacked by the local Arakan people who do not (...)
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR. 2014. SITTWE. Rakhine State. Local area where a number of camps have been set up for the Internally Displaced People - all Muslim, who were attacked by the local Arakan people who do not (...)
Chien-Chi Chang Internally Displaced People (IDP) camps for Rohingya. Sittwe, Myanmar. May, 2016. © Chien-Chi Chang | Magnum Photos
Chien-Chi Chang Internally Displaced People (IDP) camps for Rohingya. Sittwe, Myanmar. May 2016. © Chien-Chi Chang | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR. 2014. SITTWE. Rakhine State. Rakhine Nationalist celebration of traditonal Tug-of-War contest. Rakhine nationalists have been at the forfront of opposition to the Muslim Rohinga presence (...)
Chien-Chi Chang Internally Displaced People (IDP) camps for Rohingya. Sittwe, Myanmar. May 2016. © Chien-Chi Chang | Magnum Photos
Chien-Chi Chang Rohingya people in the Internally Displaced Person (IDP) camps in Sittwe. An estimated 140,000 Rohingya are placed in the IDP camps guarded by the armed police and military. Sittwe, Myanmar. June 2 (...)