Press TV, Aug 28,
2017
About 1,000
persecuted Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar's western Rakhine state have fleed to
neighboring Bangladesh after coming under fire from military soldiers.
They then scattered,
with at least some making it to unofficial camps for unregistered refugees, the
official added.
The Muslims, who
were seeking refuge from the ongoing violence in Myanmar, had been in a border
no man's land for two days.
Bangladeshi border
guards, who had earlier provided them with food and water, sought to push them
back to Myanmar.
Rohingya leaders say
8,000 to 9,000 Rohingya have entered Bangladesh since a fresh wave of violence
broke out in Rakhine last Thursday.
At least 104 people
have been killed in the fresh bout of violence involving Myanmar’s military and
the armed group. The official death toll as of Sunday was 96.
Renewed violence
erupted on August 25 after dozens of police and border outposts in Rakhine
allegedly came under attack by a group claiming to be advocating the Muslim
Rohingyas against the government crackdown in Rakhine. A total of 89 people,
including 12 security personnel, were killed during the violence.
Video clips
circulating on social media showed that there was widespread burning of
buildings and even whole neighborhoods in Maungdaw township in northern Rakhine
on Sunday.
Arakan Times, an
online news website serving the Rohingya community, said Myanmar border guard
police and soldiers burned down 1,000 homes in actions beginning Saturday and
continuing Monday.
A group of
journalists who tried to drive to Maungdaw on Monday were turned back by police
and soldiers.
Myanmar’s government
brands the 1.1 million-strong Rohingya population in the country as “illegal
immigrants” from Bangladesh. Rohingya Muslims, however, have had roots in the
country that go back centuries. They are considered by the UN the “most
persecuted minority group in the world.”
The government used
a militant attack on border guards back in October 2016 as a pretext to enforce
the blockade on Rakhine.
There have been
numerous eyewitness accounts of summary executions, rapes, and arson attacks by
the military since the crackdown began.
Some 87,000 Rohingya
Muslims have fled to Bangladesh since last year amid the crackdown.
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