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posted by janrinok on Saturday February 03 2018, @12:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the echoes-of-Bosnia,-Iraq-et-al dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by janrinok on Saturday February 03 2018, @08:15AM (2 children)

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Saturday February 03 2018, @08:15AM (#632411) Journal

    Funny that you should ciritcise the European Nations as being cowards. The countries that you have quoted have fought and died alongside the US military in Iraq, Syria, Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait and elsewhere. I suppose that using your logic you would claim that the US forces involved must also be cowards, right?

    I don't see it that way, all those who have lost their lives are as worthy as each other, and deserve the same degree of respect.

    Your selective history does not reflect what is actually happening in the world.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by shortscreen on Saturday February 03 2018, @09:06AM

    by shortscreen (2252) on Saturday February 03 2018, @09:06AM (#632428) Journal

    I'm not certain what post you're replying to, but if the claim was "Europeans are cowardly," I'd hope you can come up with a better rebuttal than "we even tagged along as US sidekicks during some of its imperial misadventures!"

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @07:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @07:29PM (#632640)

    I traveled in Europe several times when Bosnia and Kosovo were building up and when they were hot. The European position even among the peaceniks was to whine with increasing urgency about the need for the US to step in. Perhaps it was my ignorance of European geopolitics but it seems that while they were willing to join in, not a single country was willing to even think about taking the lead. Maybe they were too close geographically or maybe politically. However it was interesting that even those people who I knew used to criticize US military involvement began complaining that the US had not intervened already. I think the problems went on a few too many years before any move was made to stop them because of that.