‘Military erased Rohingya villages’

After the 2017 expulsion of the Muslim minority Rohingya from Myanmar’s Rakhine state, the military destroyed villages and mosques and repurposed their lands for security outposts, according to a UN-backed investigation.

Violence against the Rohingya escalated dramatically in August 2017 when Myanmar’s military launched an operation in response to attacks, driving out hundreds of thousands from their homes in the coastal state.