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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: -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.