It has been more than eight months since the start of the military crackdown in
Myanmar's Rakhine State which has forced almost three-quarters of a million
Rohingya across the border into
Bangladesh.
The United Nations has called the crisis a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing" but the Myanmar government maintains this is a targeted operation to purge the state of Rohingya fighters - a narrative they have gone to great lengths to uphold.
As Mark Farmaner, director of Burma Campaign UK explains, "We've seen the government of Burma (Myanmar) very strictly controlling the access and news coming out of Rakhine State and trying to dominate how it is reported and trying to intimidate domestic and international media organisations, who are trying to investigate and find out what really has gone on."
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