Discussing the Rohingya Refugee Crisis<br />In Asia, it’s been a story of the rollback of democracy, and so here was just one story where there was this peaceful transition from a military junta<br />that ruled for almost 50 years to a civilian leader — this democracy activist, this Nobel Peace Prize laureate.<br />Something that’s really striking to me — and that’s only because maybe<br />that I’m here and experiencing it — is to look at the way that not only the Myanmar government but also the Myanmar population is reacting to all this, which is basically to deny it.<br />On the Ground By<br />BEN C. SOLOMON,<br />HANNAH BEECH and<br />DAMIEN CAVE<br />OCT. 11, 2017<br />A conversation with Ben C. Solomon about the Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar’s military for camps in Bangladesh.<br />The conversations here with correspondents for The New York Times in Southeast Asia, Ben C. Solomon<br />and Hannah Beech, who were interviewed by Damien Cave, our Australia bureau chief, are an attempt to answer common questions and add context and insight to our Myanmar coverage.<br />And the truth of the matter is that she is still very, very constrained,<br />and the military controls a lot of things — and controls the people who are committing what seem to be atrocities in the Rohingya areas in northern Rakhine state and in western Myanmar.
