Rohingya warn UN of severe violence

Rohingya Muslims are warning that unless the international community takes a firm stance against the violence in Myanmar, the country could witness "ethnic cleansing on the scale of the Srebrenica massacre".

More than 22 years after 8,000 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered by Bosnian Serb troops in the UN "safe haven" of Srebrenica, separate Rohingya sources have told Al Jazeera that at least 1,000 of the persecuted Muslim minority, including scores of women and children, have been killed over the past two weeks.

Myanmar's security forces says they have killed at least 370 Rohingya "fighters" since the latest round of violence in Rakhine state began on August 25.

The violence has sent more than 164,000 Rohingya fleeing to neighbouring Bangladesh, according to UN estimates.

Many of the Rohingya are stranded in "no-man's land" - an area between the Myanmar-Bangladesh border - without shelter, with aid groups unable to provide clean water, sanitation and food, according to Joseph Tripura, a UN aid official in Cox's Bazaar.

UCJ, UNILORIN.