‘Hundreds of Rohingya killed’ – Amnesty International

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Tears roll down the cheek of a newly arrived Rohingya Muslim woman Firdous Khatoon, who got separated from her husband and children while crossing the border, outside a makeshift hospital at Palong Khali, Bangladesh, on Oct 17. (AP)

Myanmar security forces killed hundreds of men, women and children during a systematic campaign to expel Rohingya Muslims, Amnesty International said in a new report Wednesday that calls for an arms embargo on the country and criminal prosecution of the perpetrators. More than 580,000 refugees have arrived in Bangladesh since Aug 25, when Myanmar security forces began a scorched-earth campaign against Rohingya villages.

Myanmar’s government has said it was responding to attacks by Muslim insurgents, but the United Nations and others have said the response was disproportionate. The continuing exodus of Rohingya Muslims has become a major humanitarian crisis and sparked international condemnation of Buddhist-majority Myanmar, which still denies atrocities are taking place.

Based on interviews with more than 120 fleeing Rohingya, Amnesty International said at least hundreds of people were killed by security forces who surrounded villages, shot fleeing inhabitants and then set buildings alight, burning to death the elderly, sick and disabled who were unable to flee. In some villages, women and girls were raped or subjected to other sexual violence, according to the report. (AP)

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