But Myanmar gained its independence in , leaving the Rohingya to be ruled by a government they had not backed. Within a few years, many Rohingya staged a rebellion against the new Myanmar government. It was brutally crushed, beginning a decadeslong cycle of repression that culminated, eventually, in the August massacre.
She had been imprisoned, and then exiled, for fighting to bring human rights and democracy to this longtime military dictatorship. Then came her apparent indifference to the suffering of the Rohingya. As reports of ethnic cleansing emerged, the world reacted with disbelief as Suu Kyi stayed silent. The use of this blunt and powerful word was intentional , write Max Penksy and Nadia Rubaii, who study mass atrocities at Binghamton University.
As Suu Kyi tries to avert prosecution by the Hague, the nearly 1 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh live with danger and uncertainty.
Bangladesh has tried its best to manage the refugee crisis , says Cornell University professor Sabrina Karim, who visited refugee camps there in January On Aug. According to the report published by the Ontario International Development Agency in August , at least 24, Rohingya Muslims have been killed by the Myanmar army since Aug. While the soldiers threw in fire 34, Rohingya Muslims, they also battered , Rohingya.
International human rights organizations -- with satellite images they have published -- have proven that hundreds of villages have been destroyed. The UN and international human rights organizations call violence against Rohingya Muslims "ethnic cleansing" or "genocide". World , Asia - Pacific Myanmar soldiers confess to 'genocide' against Rohingya 2 soldiers who fled Myanmar admit they killed Rohingya Muslims, buried them in mass graves, raped women Busra Selvi Ogutcen He also confessed that they buried eight women, seven children and 15 men in a grave.
Kill all children or adults you see Zaw Naing Tun, a year-old former Buddhist monk, confessed that when 30 Rohingya Muslims were killed, he was in a battalion in a village nearby, and added that he received the instructions of 'kill all the children or adults you see' from his seniors. He said that with the soldiers of the battalion he was in, they killed 80 Rohingya Muslims.
I kept watching while women were raped Zaw Naing Tun said that after capturing and killing 10 unarmed people, they buried them in a mass grave in the north of the village. The two soldiers in question have not been detained, but their fate has not yet been announced. Eyewitness Rohingyas spoke about atrocity Basha Miya, a Rohingya Muslim living in camps in Bangladesh, said her grandmother was killed and thrown into one of these mass graves with 16 people from Thin Ga Net village.
There was nothing left," Ahmed said. Little justice better than no justice Matthew Smith, the chairman of the Bangkok-based human rights organization Fortify Rights, said it was a tremendous moment for Rohingya Muslims and the people of Myanmar striving for justice.
According to the report, military members raped 18, women. Myanmar soldiers confess to gang-raping Rakhine woman. Related topics arakan mass graves myanmar army Rohingya Muslims Two soldiers video testimonies. On Sept. Reuters uncovered the massacre and has pieced together how it unfolded. During the reporting of this article, two Reuters journalists were arrested by Myanmar police. Filed Feb. Soon afterwards, on the morning of Sept.
At least two were hacked to death by Buddhist villagers. The rest were shot by Myanmar troops, two of the gravediggers said. The soldiers shot each man two or three times, he said. Others were already dead. Nearly , Rohingya Muslims have fled their villages and crossed the border into Bangladesh since August. The Rohingya accuse the army of arson, rapes and killings aimed at rubbing them out of existence in this mainly Buddhist nation of 53 million.
The United Nations has said the army may have committed genocide; the United States has called the action ethnic cleansing. Rohingya trace their presence in Rakhine back centuries. Reuters has pieced together what happened in Inn Din in the days leading up to the killing of the 10 Rohingya — eight men and two high school students in their late teens. Until now, accounts of the violence against the Rohingya in Rakhine state have been provided only by its victims.
The Reuters reconstruction draws for the first time on interviews with Buddhist villagers who confessed to torching Rohingya homes, burying bodies and killing Muslims.
This account also marks the first time soldiers and paramilitary police have been implicated by testimony from security personnel themselves. Members of the paramilitary police gave Reuters insider descriptions of the operation to drive out the Rohingya from Inn Din, confirming that the military played the lead role in the campaign.
The dead men were fishermen, shopkeepers, the two teenage students and an Islamic teacher. Two photos — one taken the first day, the other on the day of the killings — show the 10 captives lined up in a row, kneeling.
Then, on Jan. It confirmed that Buddhist villagers attacked some of the men with swords and soldiers shot the others dead. The charges carry a maximum year prison sentence. Soldiers decided to kill the men, the army said, because intense fighting in the area made it impossible to transfer them to police custody. The army said it would take action against those involved.
Buddhist villagers interviewed for this article reported no attack by a large number of insurgents on security forces in Inn Din. And Rohingya witnesses told Reuters that soldiers plucked the 10 from among hundreds of men, women and children who had sought safety on a nearby beach.
Scores of interviews with Rakhine Buddhist villagers, soldiers, paramilitary police, Rohingya Muslims and local administrators further revealed:. Eleven Buddhist villagers said Buddhists committed acts of violence, including killings.
The government and army have repeatedly blamed Rohingya insurgents for burning villages and homes. Security forces wore civilian clothes to avoid detection during raids, one of the paramilitary police officers said. Michael G. Karnavas, a U. So far, however, Myanmar has not faced international sanctions over the violence.
They had hoped the election of her National League for Democracy party in would bring democratic reform and an opening of the country. Instead, critics say, Suu Kyi is in thrall to the generals who freed her from house arrest in And we are not giving blanket denials. We have to ask the Ministry of Home Affairs and Myanmar police forces.
It is very difficult in the current situation. Zaw Htay defended the military operation in Rakhine. If that kind of terrorist attack took place in European countries, in the United States, in London, New York, Washington, what would the media say? The settlement is made up of a scattering of hamlets around a school, clinic and Buddhist monastery. Buddhist homes cluster in the northern part of the village. For many years there had been tensions between the Buddhists and their Muslim neighbors, who accounted for almost 90 percent of the roughly 7, people in the village.
But the two communities had managed to co-exist, fishing the coastal waters and cultivating rice in the paddies. In October , Rohingya militants attacked three police posts in northern Rakhine — the beginning of a new insurgency. After the attacks, Rohingya in Inn Din said many Buddhists stopped hiring them as farmhands and home help. The Buddhists said the Rohingya stopped showing up for work.
On Aug. The closest attack was just 4 km to the north. In Inn Din, several hundred fearful Buddhists took refuge in the monastery in the center of the village, more than a dozen of their number said.
Two paramilitary police officers and Soe Chay, the retired soldier, said the troops belonged to the 11th infantry regiment of this division.
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