With their bags packed, and a cyclone on its way, these residents are finally heeding the call to evacuate.<br/> <br />Most of the evacuees are Rohingya Muslims who have been camping in low-lying regions since ethnic and religious unrest last year.<br/> <br />The government planned to move 38,000 residents by Tuesday, but many initially refused to leave, suspicious of authorities' intentions.<br/> <br />As the winds picked up and destroyed their shelters, they packed their belongings.<br/> <br />The Rohingya are denied citizenship by the government in Myanmar and considered by many Buddhists to be immigrants from Bangladesh.<br/> <br />Even before the storm, the UN had said about 69,000 people in the western Rakhine State were living in accommodations at risk of flooding during the rainy season.<br/> <br />It warned last week there could be a humanitarian catastrophe if people were not evacuated.
