At least
730 Rohingya children under the age of five have been mercilessly
slaughtered by Myanmar police forces in an almost six-month crusade
against the Muslim community, Doctors Without Borders reports.
Following
a series of surveys, the humanitarian agency concluded that of this
figure, 59 percent of the children were shot, while 15 percent burned
to death in their homes, 7 percent succumbed to beatings and 2
percent were killed by landmines.
A
conservative estimate from Doctors Without Borders shows that at
least 6,700 refugees have been killed throughout the course of the
first month of militarized persecution. This figure far exceeds
official statistics which present a death toll of 400.
“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,” said the French Division of Doctors Without Border’s
medical director, Dr Sidney Wong, describing the hundreds of families
trapped by soldiers as their homes were set ablaze.
The
report says that between August 25 and September 24, the average
mortality rate registers 8.0 deaths per 10,000 people, approximately
2.26 percent of the over 600,000 interviewed. Based on the
organization’s six surveys distributed in the Bangladeshi refugee
camps scattered throughout the Cox Bazar, it would imply that
somewhere between 9,425 and 13,759 Rohingya died since the beginning
of what UN officials refer to as an ethnic cleansing.
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