REFUGEES: ‘270,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar, U.N. says’, New York Times, 8 September 2017

The number of Rohingya who have fled fighting in Myanmar climbed sharply to 270,000, placing a huge strain on camps in Bangladesh, the UN refugee agency said, about 164,000 since fighting broke out in late August. The Rohingya are a Muslim ethnic group that has faced severe repression in Myanmar, where a Buddhist majority has long ruled. About one million of them live in Rakhine State in the west of the country. Another 300,000 to 500,000 live in Bangladesh, many of them in grim refugee camps. '270,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar, U.N. says', New York Times, 8 September 2017