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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: 3, Interesting) by cubancigar11 on Saturday February 03 2018, @09:59AM
Overpopulation is a well studied problem. Government has got nothing to do with it. Of course, tyranny can achieve anything, but Bangladesh is not China, neither are India or Burma - all three are suffering from population control.
There is this problem people keep overlooking. Humans in all overpopulated areas of the world aren't suddenly having more than average children, you know! They are having exactly the same of number of children as allowed by biology over billions of years. There is no 'extra' fucking around going on, no matter what meme-lords say. And there is no reason why anyone can ask them to have less fucking than the rich people. Overpopulation happens because of decreasing death rate, which in turn happens due to advent of medicinal science, especially because of anti-biotics. Study says that it takes 3 generations from a decrease of death rate (which increases population) to self-regulated family control (which stabilizes population). That is the minimum.
Further complication is that family control is directly proportional to economic stability. So now you need to control both the doctors and businessmen to achieve a stable population. Guess what, it took The West 300 years to do that. China did that in decades because simply a very good planning and a will to achieve lofty goals at the cost of human life. India still doesn't have economy under control, but its population has been tapering lately.
So you are right in a way that Bangladeshi government is at fault, but it is not because of their unwillingness, but rather incompetence.