Discussing the Rohingya Refugee Crisis

Discussing the Rohingya Refugee Crisis
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
that ruled for almost 50 years to a civilian leader — this democracy activist, this Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Something that’s really striking to me — and that’s only because maybe
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.
On the Ground By
BEN C. SOLOMON,
HANNAH BEECH and
DAMIEN CAVE
OCT. 11, 2017
A conversation with Ben C. Solomon about the Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar’s military for camps in Bangladesh.
The conversations here with correspondents for The New York Times in Southeast Asia, Ben C. Solomon
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.
And the truth of the matter is that she is still very, very constrained,
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.