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Scores of Rohingya villagers in Myanmar have been massacred and buried in 5 mass graves, according to an exclusive investigation by the Associated Press news agency.
The report by the news agency on Thursday includes witness testimony from two dozen survivors and relatives of victims, as well as time-stamped mobile phone footage of the aftermath of the attack.
Estimates suggest 400 members of the persecuted minority were killed by Burmese troops.
In one massacre, a group of men were picking teams for a local football-like game called 'chinlone' in the village of Gu Dar Pyin, when soldiers began firing at them.
A survivor named Noor Kadir later found six of his friends buried in two separate mass graves. He said the bodies of the victims were only recogniseable through the colour of their shorts.
The mass killing is believed to have taken place on August 27 and survivors told the Associated Press that soldiers had tried to cover up evidence of the atrocity.
Video obtained by the agency indicates attempts at using acid to remove the bodies.
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Widely regarded as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world, the mainly Muslim Rohingya people, are denied citizenship by the Burmese government, which claims they are not native to Myanmar.
(Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Saturday February 03 2018, @01:45AM (8 children)
Obvious troll is obvious.
In this case, it's Buddhists persecuting Muslims [wikipedia.org] if anyone's wondering about that whole "reality" thing.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @01:54AM (3 children)
Of all people, when you piss off BUDDHISTS enough to make them violent, you deserve what's coming to you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @01:57AM (2 children)
I would say Christians should be harder to piss off than Buddhists, ya know turn the other cheek and all. We've seen how that works out in reality. How about murder and persecution are just not OK?
Woops, responded to the bigot, wonder what shite will come out now.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @02:31AM (1 child)
When you have an infestation of cockroaches in your house, see how far the peace and brotherhood argument lasts.
(Score: 2) by beckett on Saturday February 03 2018, @10:38AM
Wow flashback to old AD&D "True Neutral Arguments" over funyuns and mountain dew that devolved into fistfights.
n.b. playing "Risk" didn't turn out much better
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @03:31AM
Basically it is this: don't start a genocide you can't finish.
Rohingya invaded Burma (Myanmar), moved in, got comfortable, and then decided to genocide those infidel Buddhists.
That didn't work out so well. It's hard to do a genocide when you are severely outnumbered.
Look, to get the Buddhists pissed off enough to kill you, you have to be seriously awful. I'm not going to shed a tear. It is completely disgusting that people feel any pity for the Rohingya. They could have stayed in Bangladesh, which is at least a Muslim country. They could have... maybe NOT tried to genocide the population of the country they invaded. But no, because... Muslims gonna Muslim.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @10:36AM (1 child)
What is it with liberals and Muslims lately?
That idea that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" is mostly not true. Sure, there is conflict between liberals and conservatives, and there is conflict between Muslims and conservatives, but you're nuts if you think that you'll get along great with Muslims. One could consider the Muslims to be a different sort of conservative, preferring to conserve the 7th century values.
You can forget about women's rights. Women become belongings to be traded. You can forget about LGBT rights. It is required to throw them from high places. You can forget about science. Muslims are creationist. You can forget about emancipation. Slavery is allowed.
It is only international pressure that put a stop to slavery in much of the Muslim world, but that won't work if the mighty USA goes Muslim. In the 1950s, people in Saudi Arabia were still legally buying and selling black people. (today it happens illegally on web sites that specialize in it) You might notice that there are no black people in Saudi Arabia. Well yes, they don't reproduce when castrated.
Seriously, you are suicidal. I wouldn't care, except that you are dragging my family along with you!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @01:29PM
Uhh anyone can be a slave, not just blacks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @10:43PM
jeez whatever they did to make Buddhists angry, it should be mentioned...