'Hundreds of Rohingyas' killed in Myanmar crackdown

Systematically gang-raping women and slaughtering children with knives? Yeah, that might be ethnic cleansing.
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Myanmar's security forces have committed mass killings and gang rapes of Rohingya Muslims and burned their villages since October in a campaign that "very likely" amounts to crimes against humanity and possibly ethnic cleansing, the UN human rights office said on Friday.

"The 'area clearance operations' have likely resulted in hundreds of deaths," said the report from the United Nations human rights office, referring the military crackdown launched on October 10 in the wake of a deadly attack on military post.

Witnesses had testified to "the killing of babies, toddlers, children, women and elderly; opening fire at people fleeing; burning of entire villages; massive detention; massive and systematic rape and sexual violence; deliberate destruction of food and sources of food", the report said.