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    'I Just Knew To Run To Save My Life': Nearly 125,000 Rohingya Flee Myanmar

    Observers expect that number to grow. Myanmar's crackdown on the Muslim minority has prompted outrage around the world, including ire directed at its civilian leader, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
    by Colin Dwyer Sep 05, 2017 4 minutes
    A Rohingya woman rests for a moment with her children Tuesday after crossing into Bangladesh. She says she lost several members of her family in Myanmar, where a new spate of violence has sent more than 100,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing what they describe as certain death. / Bernat Armangue / Shutterstock.com

    In a span of less than two weeks, rampant violence has driven nearly 125,000 members of a Muslim ethnic minority from their homeland. And as the Rohingya cross the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh, they have borne little but the clothes on the back and their brutal stories of the systematic rape, murder and arson they escaped.

    "My husband was shot in the village. I escaped with my son and in-laws," a 20-year-old Rohingya named Dilara at the United Nations, which released its Tuesday. She had made it to Bangladesh with her toddler after a three-day walk, hiding occasionally to escape the gaze of

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