Rohingya Crisis -- News Updates October 4-5, 2017

ABC News Online: Rohingya Muslims: Refugees with catastrophic injuries 'targeted' by military landmines as they fled

The United Nations says Myanmar's treatment of Rohingya Muslims is ethnic cleansing. Among the most serious allegations is the alleged laying of landmines on refugees' routes to Bangladesh.

While the military denies the charge, in one Bangladesh hospital lie numerous Rohingyas suffering blast injuries and gunshot wounds, which they say were inflicted as they fled.

Rohingya refugee Yousef Nabi is a young man in agony.

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Rohingya Crisis -- News Updates October 4-5, 2017

Myanmar military accused of executing dozens of fleeing Rohingya villagers -- The Guardian
Rohingya fleeing Myanmar say army redoubling push to clear villages -- AFP
Myanmar army

denies laying landmines in Rohingyas' path -- ABC News Online
Bangladesh destroys boats ferrying Rohingya from Myanmar -- Reuters
UN: Myanmar violence may be 'crimes against humanity' -- Al Jazeera
Rohingya refugees living in ‘dire’ conditions, senior UN officials warn, appealing for assistance -- UN News Centre
U.N. experts on women and children's rights decry Myanmar atrocities -- Reuters
Aid groups seek $434 million to help up to 1.2 million Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar -- Reuters
Children in Bangladesh's Rohingya Camps Draw Scenes of Horror -- VOA
Rohingya Mobile Reporter Network Crumbles in Myanmar -- VOA
'Long history of Rohingya jihad starts with Partition' -- Daily Mail
The Rohingya Crisis -- Eleanor Albert, Council on Foreign Relations