looked steadily into the camera as he recounted two weeks in August 2017 when he and his battalion laid waste to several villages in Rakhine, a state in the far west of Myanmar. They were there, he said, as part of the Burmese army’s “clearance operations” targeting the Rohingya, a persecuted Muslim ethnic minority, which sparked the exodus of more than 740,000 Rohingyas to neighbouring Bangladesh.
The Burmese courts have convicted seven soldiers of killing ten Rohingyas in Rakhine in 2017. But otherwise the Burmese authorities have failed to investigate detailed accounts of widespread human-rights abuses gathered from fleeing Rohingyas, much less punish anyone. The Burmese government maintains—entirely implausibly—that any harm inflicted on civilians was neither orchestrated from on high nor systematic, but simply an unfortunate side-effect of the army’s pursuit of armed Rohingya rebels.
Major General Zaw Min Tun, the Burmese army’s spokesman, says the soldiers’ statements are false. But evidence gathered by thesuggests their battalions, as well as other units they mention in their statements, did indeed commit atrocities in Rakhine state in 2017. Several locals interviewed by theThe soldiers’ testimony will be of interest not just to the.
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susipudjiastuti Sempat ada linknya di page Fortify Rights Facebook, tapi sepertinya linknya dihapus sekarang.
un EUCouncil USUN you can always bribe, blackmail a few people to say anything. What a bunch of crock. Muslims in Burma were terrorizing locals and spreading violent islam. No Buddhist would harm hurt peaceful people.