In his first official visit to Myanmar, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has skillfully navigated the third rail of Myanmarese politics: the country's Rohingya minority . The Rohingya are a Muslim ethnic group living in Myanmar's westernmost Rakhine state that has been at the center of a political firestorm since Myanmar's 2010 elections. Many of the country's other numerous ethnic minority groups have aligned with Buddhist nationalist forces against the Rohingya, insisting that the Rohingya should not be an officially recognized ethnic group of Myanmar. The ethnic Buddhist Rakhine have been particularly insistent, and the 2016 rise of a new Rohingya ethnic insurgent group has escalated the issue. A late August attack on security forces by Rohingya militants — and the resulting harsh military crackdown — has pushed this issue into a crisis once again, causing massive refugee flows into Bangladesh.