Buddhist-Majority Myanmar: Refugee Camps and Rohingya Muslims

buddhist-majority myanmar: It estimated that at least 9,000 Rohingya had died of various causes in Myanmar's Rakhine state between Aug. 25 and Sept. 24, and that more than 70 per cent of the deaths were the result of violence, according to CTV. According to MSF, the dead included at least 730 children younger than 5. The group, known by its French acronym MSF, said in a statement made available Thursday that it conducted the survey in refugee camps in Bangladesh. More than 630,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Buddhist-majority Myanmar into Bangladesh to escape what the United Nations has called ethnic cleansing. She said the findings were staggering, both in terms of the numbers of people who reported a family member dead as a result of violence and the horrific ways in which they said they were killed or severely injured. The peak in deaths coincides with the launch of the latest 'clearance operations' by Myanmar security forces in the last week of August, MSF medical director Sidney Wong said in a statement. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.