Rohingya tell UN they were told: 'If you do not leave, we will torch your houses and kill you'

UN claims 'coordinated and systematic' attacks on Rohingya are intended to prevent their return.

Attacks against Rohingya Muslims in Burma point to a strategy to cause "widespread fear and trauma" and prevent them from ever returning to their homes, a report by the UN human rights office has said.

The report released on Wednesday is based on 65 interviews conducted in mid-September with Rohingya, individually and in groups, as more the half a million people from the ethnic group fled into Bangladesh during a violent crackdown in Burma.