Desperate Rohingya Flee Myanmar on Trail of Suffering. ‘It Is All Gone.’<br />After militants from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army attacked police posts<br />and an army base on Aug. 25, killing more than a dozen, the Myanmar military began torching entire villages with helicopters and petrol bombs, aided by Buddhist vigilantes from the ethnic Rakhine group, those fleeing the violence said.<br />In an open letter to Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, nearly a dozen of her fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureates labeled last<br />October’s military offensive “a human tragedy amounting to ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.”<br />“Some international experts have warned of the potential for genocide,” said the letter, signed by Desmond Tutu and Malala Yousafzai, among others.
