Before-and-after satellite images show massive influx of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

The severity of the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis becomes even clearer when viewed from space.

An estimated 624,000 Rohingya refugees, a Muslim ethnic minority in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state, have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since late August to escape oppression and extreme violence from Myanmar’s military and Buddhist majority. Due to decades of persecution, nearly 1 million Rohingya currently live in Bangladesh.

The recent influx of Rohingya in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district, where the Kutupalong and Nayapara refugee camps are located, has prompted plans to build the largest refugee camp in the world. Read more…

More about Space, Science, Social Good, Refugee Crisis, and Refugees