Jan 24, 2017

Rohingya fishermen sell fish caught from makeshift rafts made from recycled plastic containers in Maungdaw, western Rakhine state, Myanmar. Their usual, sturdy fishing boats were outlawed three months ago when Myanmar authorities launched a sweeping and violent counter-insurgency campaign in Rakhine state, home to the long-persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority. The ban on fishing boats — meant to prevent insurgents from entering or leaving the country by sea — is just one small provision in the wider crackdown, in which authorities have been accused of widespread abuses.

: In this Jan. 16, 2017, photo, Rohingya fishermen carry a fishing raft, constructed with empty plastic containers, up the beach in Tha Pyay Taw village, Maungdaw, western Rakhine state, Myanmar. Their usual, sturdy fishing boats were outlawed three months ago when Myanmar authorities launched a sweeping and violent counter-insurgency campaign in Rakhine state, home to the long-persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority. The ban on fishing boats — meant to prevent insurgents from entering or leaving the country by sea — is just one small provision in the wider crackdown, in which authorities have been accused of widespread abuses. (AP Photo/Esther Htusan)

: In this Jan. 16, 2017, photo, Rohingya fishermen pull their rafts made of empty plastic containers along the shallow coastline of the Bay of Bengal in Tha Pyay Taw village, Maungdaw, western Rakhine state, Myanmar. Their usual, sturdy fishing boats were outlawed three months ago when Myanmar authorities launched a sweeping and violent counter-insurgency campaign in Rakhine state, home to the long-persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority. The ban on fishing boats –meant to prevent insurgents from entering or leaving the country by sea — is just one small provision in the wider crackdown, in which authorities have been accused of widespread abuses. (AP Photo/Esther Htusan)

: In this Jan. 16, 2017, photo, Rohingya fishermen pull their raft made of empty plastic containers along the coastline of the Bay of Bengal in Tha Pyay Taw village, Maungdaw, western Rakhine state, Myanmar. Their usual, sturdy fishing boats were outlawed three months ago when Myanmar authorities launched a sweeping and violent counter-insurgency campaign in Rakhine state, home to the long-persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority. The ban on fishing boats — meant to prevent insurgents from entering or leaving the country by sea — is just one small provision in the wider crackdown, in which authorities have been accused of widespread abuses. (AP Photo/Esther Htusan)

: In this Jan. 16, 2017, photo, Rohingya fishermen stand in shallow waters on the coastline waiting to launch their homemade rafts to go fishing in the rough sea of the Bay of Bengal off Tha Pyay Taw village, Maungdaw, western Rakhine state, Myanmar. Every day before sunrise, dozens of fishermen, shivering against the cold, shove out onto the Bay of Bengal on makeshift rafts made out of plastic jugs, bamboo and twine. Their usual, sturdy fishing boats were outlawed three months ago when Myanmar authorities launched a sweeping and violent counter-insurgency campaign in Rakhine state, home to the long-persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority. (AP Photo/Esther Htusan)

: In this Jan. 16, 2017, photo, a police officer rides away with a bag of fish from the Rohingya fishermen in Maungdaw, western Rakhine state, Myanmar. Their usual, sturdy fishing boats were outlawed three months ago when Myanmar authorities launched a sweeping and violent counter-insurgency campaign in Rakhine state, home to the long-persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority. The ban on fishing boats — meant to prevent insurgents from entering or leaving the country by sea — is just one small provision in the wider crackdown, in which authorities have been accused of widespread abuses. (AP Photo/Esther Htusan)

: In this Jan. 16, 2017, photo, traditional wooden boats of the Rohingya fishermen sit along the beach abandoned in Maungdaw, western Rakhine state, Myanmar. Their usual, sturdy fishing boats were outlawed three months ago when Myanmar authorities launched a sweeping and violent counter-insurgency campaign in Rakhine state, home to the long-persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority. The ban on fishing boats — meant to prevent insurgents from entering or leaving the country by sea — is just one small provision in the wider crackdown, in which authorities have been accused of widespread abuses. (AP Photo/Esther Htusan)

: In this photograph taken on December 13, 2016, Muslim fishermen gather their net while they fish on the shore of Maungdaw facing the Bay of Bengal located in Myanmar’s strife-torn Rakhine State near the Bangladesh border. Almost 27,000 Rohingya have crossed into Bangladesh since the beginning of November, the UN said on December 13, fleeing a bloody military campaign in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state. (KHINE HTOO MRAT/AFP/Getty Images)

: In this Jan. 16, 2017, photo, Rohingya fishermen launch a raft made of empty plastic containers to go fishing into the rough sea off of Tha Pyay Taw village, Maungdaw, western Rakhine state, Myanmar. Their usual, sturdy fishing boats were outlawed three months ago when Myanmar authorities launched a sweeping and violent counter-insurgency campaign in Rakhine state, home to the long-persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority. The ban on fishing boats — meant to prevent insurgents from entering or leaving the country by sea — is just one small provision in the wider crackdown, in which authorities have been accused of widespread abuses. (AP Photo/Esther Htusan)

: In this Jan. 16, 2017, photo, Rohingya fishermen sell fish caught from makeshift rafts made from recycled plastic containers in Maungdaw, western Rakhine state, Myanmar. Their usual, sturdy fishing boats were outlawed three months ago when Myanmar authorities launched a sweeping and violent counter-insurgency campaign in Rakhine state, home to the long-persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority. The ban on fishing boats — meant to prevent insurgents from entering or leaving the country by sea — is just one small provision in the wider crackdown, in which authorities have been accused of widespread abuses. (AP Photo/Esther Htusan)

Ban on makeshift fishing boats in Myanmar

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