At Least 6,700 Rohingya Died in Myanmar Crackdown, Aid Group Says
Doctors Without Borders, the international medical charity also known as Médecins Sans Frontières, said
that nearly 70 percent of the victims it had tallied died of gunshot and that 9 percent were burned to death in their homes.
More than 645,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since late August, when deadly attacks
on Myanmar security posts by Rohingya insurgents led to a brutal military response.
The estimate was a summary of findings from six surveys carried out last month with refugees who had fled Myanmar for neighboring Bangladesh.
14, 2017
BANGKOK — Doctors Without Borders estimated on Thursday
that at least 6,700 members of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority, including 730 children below age 5, had met violent deaths there in the month after a military crackdown on their villages.
Fabrizio Carboni, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross delegation in Myanmar, recently spent three days in northern Rakhine.