Myanmar Rohingya: What you need to know about the crisis

The attacks that started in the early hours of 25 August on around 30 police and army posts, triggering a ruthless military counter-attack which has driven more than half a million Rohingya into Bangladesh, showed that militancy, now led by a shadowy group calling itself the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa), has taken root.

The Rohingya, who numbered around one million in Myanmar at the start of 2017, are one of the many ethnic minorities in the country. Rohingya Muslims represent the largest percentage of Muslims in Myanmar, with the majority living in Rakhine state

    

• Rohingya crisis: Refugees tell of 'house by house' killings

At least 6,700 Rohingya, including at least 730 children under the age of five, were killed in the month after the violence broke out, according to Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).

Amnesty International says the Myanmar military also raped and abused Rohingya women and girls.

The government, which puts the number of dead at 400, claims that "clearance operations" against the militants ended on 5 September, but

• The whole refugee population - almost one million people - require food aid
• 21,677 children under five have been treated for severe acute malnutrition
• 315,000 children under 15 years of age have received a five-in-one vaccination, which includes cover for diptheria, tetanus and whooping cough.