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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) by khallow on Saturday February 03 2018, @12:37PM (5 children)
Bullshit [google.com]. Bangladesh's population growth rate has dropped to 1.1% which is actually below the global population growth rate right now. It used to be over 2.8% in the 1970s and 1980s.
What other excuses are you going to come up with for murdering innocent people?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @03:10PM (2 children)
Khallow, you're always the liar. Bangladesh's population is still growing [worldometers.info] and has been since record keeping started. Only the excessive birthrate has reduced. How far are you going to bend reality to advance the cause of illegal squatters, armed insurgents, and violent militants just to cause the deaths of innocent Burmese?
Burma has every right to the integrity of its own borders and nothing you can write gives Bangladesh any right to annex Burma.
What was done in the past to Bangladesh and Afghanistan is now happening to Burma. Except now social media is here to back the invaders.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @05:11PM
He just said the growth rate is 1.1%.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday February 03 2018, @09:11PM
As the AC replier noted, I didn't say any different. 1.1% is greater than 0%. I can't help but notice what passes for a thought process here. I said something you disagreed with, therefore I must be lying. Well truth is an absolute defense against bullshit accusations of lying, buttercup. Read the posts next time. Don't waste my time with your bullshit.
And that's what's important here. That great reduction in population growth addresses the very complaint of the previous AC poster. Bangladesh is well on track to reach 0% growth, perhaps in half a century, maybe less.
No, they don't. Murdering thousands of people crosses that line. And Bangladesh isn't trying to annex anyone.
These murders go the wrong way for your little fairy tale.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @03:20PM (1 child)
Rohingya Brand (tm) moslem squatters, insurgents, and militants have very large families sometimes up to 20 [aljazeera.com]. No matter how you slice it, that is part of the problem.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday February 03 2018, @09:15PM
Interesting how you can't just call them people. Anyway, let's draw your attention to this quote from your linked story:
Notice that Bangladesh manned up and introduced birth control technology and education to these refugees while Myanmar deliberately made the problem worse.