Aid group: At least 6,700 Rohingya killed in Myanmar
BANGKOK — International aid group Doctors Without Borders said its field survey has found at least 6,700 Rohingya Muslims were killed between August and September in a crackdown by Myanmar’s security forces.
The group, known by its French acronym MSF, said in a statement made available Thursday that it conducted the survey in refugee camps in Bangladesh. It estimated that at least 9,000 Rohingya had died of various causes in Myanmar’s Rakhine state between Aug. 25 and Sept. 24, and that more than 70 per cent of the deaths were the result of violence.
According to MSF, the dead included at least 730 children younger than 5.
More than 630,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Buddhist-majority Myanmar into Bangladesh to escape what the United Nations has called “ethnic cleansing.”