Human rights groups have accused the military of perpetrating mass murder, looting and rape against the Rohingya in the western state of Rakhine, where the army went on a counterinsurgency offensive after an October attack there on police outposts that killed nine officers.
The roughly 1 million Rohingya in overwhelmingly Buddhist Myanmar face severe social and official discrimination.
Member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, along with Bangladesh, have long coped with Rohingya refugees.