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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: 5, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Saturday February 03 2018, @02:28AM
Muslims cause problems wherever they go, there is no persecution of Hindus or Sheiks.
-1 Ignorant. "Sheiks" are muslim rulers in the middle east. You're thinking of "Sikhs", a religious minority in India, who are famous for always wearing turbans. And Sikhs have indeed been persecuted by their neighbors and countrymen in the past.
while they're slaughtering Coptics in Egypt or blowing people up,
The muslims in Egypt are not the same as the Muslims in Burma/Myanmar, India, Malaysia, etc. Honestly, if you want to bash a whole religious/ethnic group for being obnoxious and causing problems, you should be probably be just bashing Arab muslims. They're the ones that seem to cause the most problems. Their neighbors, the Kurds, are by most accounts pretty cool people (don't ask the Turks though), but their Arab countrymen have been oppressing them for ages. The muslims in Phillipines and Indonesia seem to be jerks too, but when was the last time you heard of the muslims in Malaysia causing trouble? The ones in India don't seem to be problematic these days either.
We purged creationists from the debate
Huh? No we didn't. They're probably a majority of Christians in the USA today. Our Vice President is even one of them! What kind of backwards country elects a Creationist as VP?
and 7th century psychopathic warlords have no relevance to the modern world, muslims can just fuck off.
Yet you probably voted for the ticket with the guy who believes strongly in 7th century religious bullshit that has no relevance to the modern world.