Belongings and belonging: what the Rohingya brought with them Many of the Rohingya had little time to consider what to take as Myanmar forces drove the Muslim minority into Bangladesh in a crackdown the UN has likened to ethnic cleansing. But what items they did manage to bring tell an intimate story about the plight of a long persecuted and stateless people. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES. (ATTENTION CLIENTS: August 25th marks one year since the Rohingya militant attacks on police posts in Rakhine state which triggered the Myanmar army's crackdown on the persecuted minority. AFP is moving a series of features from the Rohingya refugee camps in the run-up to the anniversary.)