Fears of mass atrocities against Rohingya civilians in Myanmar were growing after eyewitness accounts emerged of children being beheaded and people burned alive.

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On Friday Bangkok-based rights group Fortify Rights published harrowing eye-witness accounts from Rohingya who escaped the village of Chut Pyin in Rathedaung township.

They claimed around 200 Rohingya men, women and children had been killed by Burma's security forces and local ethnic-Rakhine villagers.

Soldiers reportedly arrested a large group of Rohingya men, marched them into a nearby bamboo hut, and set it on fire, burning them to death, the group said.

Read the full article at The Telegraph 

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Fiona MacGregor is a Myanmar-based journalist and columnist who specialises in gender and human rights.