MAUNGDAW, Myanmar: Malaysia accused Myanmar of engaging in the “ethnic cleansing” of its Rohingya minority Saturday, as former United Nations chief Kofi Annan visited a burned out village in strife-torn Rakhine state.

Tens of thousands of Muslim Rohingya have fled their homes since a bloody crackdown by the Myanmar army in the western state of Rakhine sparked by a string of deadly attacks on police border posts in early October.

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