In August 2018 , study estimated that more than 24,000 Rohingya people were killed by the Myanmar military and the local Buddhists since the " clearance operations " started on 25 August 2017 . The study also estimated that 18,000 the Rohingya Muslim women and girls were raped , 116,000 Rohingya were beaten , 36,000 Rohingya were thrown into fire , burned down and destroyed 354 Rohingya villages in Rakhine state , looted many Rohingya houses , committed widespread gang rapes and other forms of sexual violence against the Rohingya Muslim women and girls . The military drive also displaced a large number of Rohingya people and made them refugees . According to the United Nations reports , as of January 2018 , nearly 690,000 Rohingya people had fled or had been driven out of Rakhine state who then took shelter in the neighboring Bangladesh as refugees . In December , two Reuters journalists who had been covering the Inn Din massacre event were arrested and imprisoned
Inn Din massacre
Inn Din massacre
Persecution of Muslims in Myanmar