"Despite a steady stream of accounts of murder, rape and forced evacuations of people, a full understanding of events in northern Rakhine is still limited by a critical problem: data availability. Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships, where most of the atrocities occurred, are closed off to international observers and few journalists are able to report on the updates (those who attempt to pay a high price for simply just doing their job), with neither the government nor the army showing any signal of change from their current stance. Given this, how do we extract frequent and credible information of events on the ground?..."