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| Mass grave of Hindus found, claims Myanmar army |
| 2017-09-26 |
| [DAWN] Myanmar’s army said on Sunday it had discovered a mass grave containing the bodies of 28 Hindus, including women and kiddies, in Rakhine state, blaming the killings on Moslem Rohingya bully boys. Thousands of Hindus have fled villages where they once lived alongside Moslems, alleging that they were targeted by The announcement could not be independently verified in an region where access has been tightly controlled by Myanmar’s army. "Security members found and dug up 28 dead bodies of Hindus who were cruelly and violently killed by ARSA hard boy Bengali murderous Moslems in Rakhine State," a statement posted on the army chief’s website said. The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) is the group whose attacks on police posts triggered an army backlash so brutal that the UN believes it amounts to ethnic cleansing of the Moslem minority. More than 430,000 Rohingya have fled the region to Bangladesh in under a month. Around 30,000 Hindus and Buddhists based in the area have also been displaced by the violence. Both communities have told AFP they were terrorised by Rohingya bully boys. The army said that security officers found a total of 20 dead women and eight men in two graves, including six boys under the age of ten. A strong smell led security officers to the burial site outside of Ye Baw Kya village, the army said. Unverifiable photos published by the government’s Information Committee showed corpses laid out in rows on grass near two mud pits where they were found. Myanmar government front man Zaw Htay confirmed the grim discovery to AFP, as did a police brass hat in Rakhine who requested anonymity. The village where the bodies were found, Ye Baw Kya, lies near a cluster of Hindu and Moslem communities in northern Rakhine called Kha Maung Seik. Last week Hindus from the area told AFP that The grim discovery of the graves will further fuel already white-hot hatred between ethnic groups in Myanmar. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 When Buddhists and Hindus get angry you KNOW the Moslem population was at it again. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-09-26 10:12 |