Stay or Go? For Myanmar’s Latest Wave of Refugees, There’s No Good Choice.

Hundreds of thousands who fled deadly unrest at home confront an uncertain future abroad. Yet for many who remained, conditions are dire.

He was already preparing to leave when the gunfire erupted without warning. The soldiers were shooting at civilians and burning down homes, again.

In a panic, Biak Tling stuffed two days’ worth of clothes into a backpack and fled. He covered 220 miles over two days on his motorbike, eventually making his way across a narrow suspension bridge from his strife-ridden home of Myanmar into the relative refuge of India.

A week earlier, he had sent his wife and three young children on a similar journey. “Take care,” he told them. “And wait for me.”