23,000 Rohingya Families Displaced Since Oct. 9: Report

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Rohingya Observatory for Human Rights said at least 23,000 Muslim families are now living without shelter after they have been displaced from their homes since October 9.

It said on Thursday that more than 16,000 people have fled Arakan State, 264 arrested and over 100 others killed, while 1,077 homes burned down.

Earlier, UN called on Myanmar to investigate allegations that security forces have killed unarmed civilians, burned villages and made arbitrary arrests in a Muslim-majority region where a crackdown has followed attacks on border police.

UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar Yanghee Lee said she had received "repeated allegations of arbitrary arrests as well as extrajudicial killings occurring within the context of the security operations conducted by the authorities in search of the alleged attackers."

Source: Islamic News