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Rohingya militants massacred Hindus: Amnesty International
[DAWN] Rohingya faceless myrmidons massacred Hindu villagers during last year’s uprising in Myanmar’s Rakhine, Amnesty International said on Tuesday in a report that sheds fresh light on the complex ethnic rivalries in the state.The killings took place on Aug 25, 2017, the report said, the same day that the Rohingya Myanmar’s military responded to the Death Eater raids with harsh reprisals. The UN says the army crackdown amounted to "ethnic cleansing" of the Rohingya, with soldiers and vigilante mobs accused of killing civilians and burning down villages. But the Rohingya faceless myrmidons have also been accused of abuses. Those include the mass killing of Hindus in the far north of Rakhine, where the military took news hounds ‐ including AFP ‐ to witness the exhumation of putrid bodies from a grave in September. The holy warriors, known as the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), denied responsibility at the time. But Amnesty International said on Tuesday that a new investigation had confirmed the group killed 53 Hindus "execution-style" ‐ mostly children ‐ in the Kha Maung Seik village cluster in northern Maungdaw. Posted by: Fred 2018-05-24 |
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