More than seven hundred thousand Rohingya crossed from Rakhine State in Myanmar into Bangladesh over a period of weeks, following military clearance operations that burned villages and killed civilians.
Refugees arriving at Cox's Bazar described mass killings, sexual violence and the destruction of homes. Satellite imagery documented hundreds of razed settlements. United Nations officials described the campaign as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.
The camps around Kutupalong became among the largest refugee settlements in the world, and Myanmar faced proceedings at the International Court of Justice.
