Why Rohingya refugees risk their lives to flee Myanmar ?

Rakhine people flee a conflict area. Thousands are travelling across the border to Bangladesh after violence erupted between the army and Rohingya Muslims in the impoverished state of Rakhine.

So, the Rohingya are an ethnic minority in Myanmar. There are about 1.3 million of them in the country, although, over the last 2.5 years, 10 percent of them have fled on boats. They have lived in the country for generations, some for hundreds of years. But the government has decided to persecute them and has, over the last three years, beaten them with impunity, put them into camps, told them that they have to call themselves Bengali or they will be detained, and otherwise basically left all humanitarian access out, so they can’t even get food or medical care or even go to school.