Muslim Insurgents: Buddhist-Majority Burma and Rohingya Villages

muslim insurgents: Burma's government has said it was responding to attacks by Muslim insurgents, but the United Nations and others have said the response was disproportionate, according to Toronto Star. The continuing exodus of Rohingya Muslims has become a major humanitarian crisis and sparked international condemnation of Buddhist-majority Burma, which still denies atrocities are taking place. More than 580,000 refugees have arrived in Bangladesh since Aug. 25, when Burmese security forces began a scorched-earth campaign against Rohingya villages. Read more Rohingya Muslims being wiped off Burma's map Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh watch their homes burn across the border in Burma Article Continued Below Starving Rohingya babies, moms, trapped in Burmese tent city Based on interviews with more than 120 fleeing Rohingya, Amnesty International said at least hundreds of people were killed by security forces who surrounded villages, shot fleeing inhabitants and then set buildings alight, burning to death the elderly, sick and disabled who were unable to flee. When shown various insignia used by Burma's army, witnesses consistently picked out the Western Command patch, it said. In some villages, women and girls were raped or subjected to other sexual violence, according to the report. react-empty 154 The witnesses repeatedly described an insignia on their attackers' uniforms that matched one worn by troops from Burma's Western Command, Amnesty International said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.