Myanmar’s blocking of vital aid to thousands of desperate civilians fleeing persecution is the latest in a countless number of atrocities committed against the Rohingya.
Considered the most persecuted people group in the world, more than 80,000 have fled Myanmar into Bangladesh since the latest outburst of fighting began just over a week ago.
Satellite pictures released by Human Rights Watch (HRW) show entire villages burnt to the ground with 700 homes destroyed in one area alone. Video footage shows children being beheaded and women and children beaten. Those who survived to escape tell of horrific ‘massacres’.
Hamida Begum, a refugee who has left everything behind, told CNN: ‘They are beating us, shooting at us and hacking our people to death.
‘Many people were killed. Many women were raped and killed. We are very poor.’
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