Q&A - Does Myanmar violence amount to human rights crimes?


  • World
  • Thursday, 14 Sep 2017

Rohingya refugees wait for food to be distributed by local organisations in Teknaf, Bangladesh September 13, 2017. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

(Reuters) - Myanmar stands accused by rights groups of ethnic cleansing and human rights violations after violence broke out in the northwestern state of Rakhine, triggering an exodus of about 400,000 Rohingya Muslims to southern Bangladesh.

At least 400 people have been killed, and thousands of homes and villages have been torched, since the military launched a counteroffensive against Rohingya insurgents in late August.

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