With a stroke of red pen, Myanmar's Rohingya fear losing right to return

Rohingya refugee women walk at Kutupalang unregistered Refugee Camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 2, 2017. Picture taken March 2, 2017. REUTERS/Claudia Jardim

SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) - Since security forces swept into their villages in northwestern Myanmar late last year, around 75,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled across the nearby border to Bangladesh. Many now fear that the authorities in Myanmar could make their displacement permanent.

At least once a year, local administrators go house-to-house in the Rohingya villages of northern Rakhine State, lining up families to check their names against official lists.