Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 14-12-2017
A mortality survey International aid group Doctors Without Borders has revealed that at least 9,000 Rohingya died in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, between 25 August and 24 September 2017 during military, police and militia operations.
The group, known by its French acronym MSF says the findings show the Rohingya were targeted and is the clearest indication yet of the deadly, widespread violence during the “clearance operations”.
The survey found that at least 71.7% of the reported deaths were caused by violence while 9% and 5% were attributed to people being burnt in their houses and beaten to death respectively.
It also recorded that out of 6,700 Rohingya killed at least 730 were children below the age of 5-years-old.
MSF Medical Director Dr. Sidney Wong says, the peak in deaths coincides with the launch of the latest “clearance operations” by Myanmar security forces in the last week of August.
“The numbers of deaths are likely to be an underestimation as we have not surveyed all refugee settlements in Bangladesh and because the surveys don’t account for the families who never made it out of Myanmar.”
Wong says MSF is seriously concerned about the safety of the Rohingya and is calling on the governments of Bangladesh and Myanmar not to force them to return to Myanmar and to guarantee their safety.
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people remain at risk in Myanmar, with no or very limited access to food, drinking water and medical care.
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