Myanmar: 'My family died in front of my eyes’: Harrowing tales from a Myanmar massacre
Warning: This article contains details some readers may find distressing. Fayaz and his wife believed they were moments from safety when the bombs began to fall: “We were getting on the boat one after another - that’s when they started bombing us.” Wails and shouts filled the air around 17:00 local time on 5 August, Fayaz* says, as thousands of scared Rohingyas made their way to the banks of the Naf river in the town of Maungdaw. Attacks on villages earlier in the area meant this was what hundreds of families, including Fayaz’s, saw as their only option - that to get to safety, they had to escape from western Myanmar to Bangladesh’s safer shores. Fayaz was carrying bags stuffed with whatever they had managed to grab. His wife was carrying their six-year-old daughter, their eldest was running alongside them. His wife’s sister was walking ahead, with the couple’s eight-month-old son in her arms. Follow link for full story...