Who are Myanmar's Rohingya?
They've been described as the "world's most persecuted minority". The Rohingya are a majority-Muslim ethnic group who have lived in the Buddhist nation of Myanmar for centuries.
Rohingya are ethnically from the Rakhine State in Myanmar, previously known as Arakan. They have faced persecution at the hands of Myanmar's military since the country's independence in the late 1940s.
In 1982, Rohingya were not recognized as one of the 135 official ethnic groups in Myanmar and were barred from citizenship and basic human rights , effectively rendering them statless. Buddhists in Myanmar believe that Rohingya are Bengali who migrated to Myanmar illegally during the British rule in the subcontinent.
In October 2016, a military crackdown in the wake of a deadly attack on an army post sent hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fleeing to neighbouring Bangladesh.
Similar attacks in August 2017 led to the ongoing military crackdown, which has led to a new mass exodus of Rohingya.
Most Rohingya have sought refuge in and around Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh.
Since the first brutal military action in 1977, about one million Rohingya have fled Myanmar . The majority have taken refuge in Bangladesh, but other countries in Asia and the Middle East have also opened their doors to one of the world's most persecuted communities.