Thousands of Ringya Muslims killed in Myanmar within a month

The figure, published Thursday in an MSF report, is evidently higher than the numbers reported by Myanmar military officials over the same period.

Sidney Wong, the MSF's medical director, said the organisation collected data in six polls, meeting with more than 600,000 survivors of violence in the state of Myanmar's northwest Rakhin.

Many of these refugees are now being accommodated in crowded, unhealthy camps in the Myanmar-Brgade border area.

What we found was shocking, as with the number of people reporting a family member died as a result of the violence and terrible ways in which they said they were killed or seriously injured,” she said.

“The number of deaths is likely to be a underestimated because we haven't polled all refugee settlements in Bangladesh and because polls don't account for families who never released it from Myanmar”.

The report states that at least 9,000 Roingya died in the state of Rakhines between August 25th and September 24th, with 71.7 percent of those deaths caused by violence.

More than 620,000 Ringya refugees have fled from what the UN has called “ethnic cleansing” in the state of Rakhine since the outbreak of clashes between government security forces and Roghey fighters on 25 August.

The military says it acted legally in response to co-ordinated attacks at border points by a rebel armed group, reports “Al Jazeera”, Periscopi broadcast. Those who left the violence did so voluntarily, some officials said.

The Myanmar government has denied accusations of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, but has refused access to UN investigators and journalists in areas of the country affected by violence.

The research of MSF '%, based on the most conservative “ ”, found that at least 730 children under the age of five were killed violently between the month after 25 August.

More than 59 percent of those under five years of age killed during this period were shot, 15 percent were burned to the death, 7 percent were beaten to death, and 2 percent were killed in landmine explosions, according to the MSF.

Those who still enter Bangladesh by neighbouring Myanmar continue to report that they are subject to violence in recent weeks”, Song said.

Bangladesh and Myanmar signed an agreement last month on the return of hundreds of thousands of Ringya refugees, but few are known for its provisions.

State Chancellor Aung San Suu Kyi, who is Mianmar's de facto leader, has refused to really discuss the state of Roggey./Periscopi/