At Least 6,700 Rohingya Died in Myanmar Crackdown, Aid Group Says<br />Doctors Without Borders, the international medical charity also known as Médecins Sans Frontières, said<br />that nearly 70 percent of the victims it had tallied died of gunshot and that 9 percent were burned to death in their homes.<br />More than 645,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since late August, when deadly attacks<br />on Myanmar security posts by Rohingya insurgents led to a brutal military response.<br />The estimate was a summary of findings from six surveys carried out last month with refugees who had fled Myanmar for neighboring Bangladesh.<br />14, 2017<br />BANGKOK — Doctors Without Borders estimated on Thursday<br />that at least 6,700 members of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority, including 730 children below age 5, had met violent deaths there in the month after a military crackdown on their villages.<br />Fabrizio Carboni, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross delegation in Myanmar, recently spent three days in northern Rakhine.
