The dead people include Muslims, Hindus, ethnic Arakanese, Daignet, Mro, and security forces, Myanmar's media said on Wednesday, citing a statement from the government's Information Committee. More than 480,000 Rhingyas, the Muslim population of the Rakhine state, have crossed the border into Bangladesh since the Myanmar army launched a counter-offensive after insurgent attacks on security forces in Rakhine on Aug 25. They have alleged genocide, rapes, arson attacks and other forms of torture by the Myanmar security forces. Bangladesh is already home to another 400,000 refugees who had fled decades of persecution in Buddhist-majority Myanmar. Earlier, the Myanmar authorities claimed to have found a mass grave of Hindus allegedly killed by 'Rohingya militants'.

Source: bd News24 September 27, 2017 17:37 UTC