The attacks in late Aug. by a small group of Rohingya insurgents are understandable given their abuse over several generations by their own government.

The government has the right to respond to these attacks, by pursuing the perpetrators and bringing them to justice. Which they did - the attackers were killed. THERE IS NO JUSTIFICATION FOR THE COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT OF AN ENTIRE COMMUNITY. And *that* is what the government of Myanmar is doing. They've been persecuting the Rohingya since the 70s and are now using the Aug. 2017 attacks as an excuse to conduct what the UN has classified as ethnic cleansing:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/11/un-myanmars-treatment-of-rohingya-textbook-example-of-ethnic-cleansing

So I'm sorry, 'DMOnt1', but YOU ARE DEAD WRONG. There are no 'aggressors on both sides' as you stated - the Myanmar army & Buddhist mobs are the aggressors, the Rohingya are their victims, and have been their victims for almost half a century now!