Amnesty International claims Rohingya Muslims also killed dozens of Hindu civilians in Myanmar, most of them was women and children

News24xx.com -  During last year, Rohingya militants massacred Hindu villagers  in Myanmar's Rakhine. The killings took place on August 25, 2017, the same day that the Rohingya insurgents staged deadly raids on police posts.

At that time, Myanmar's military responded to the insurgent raids with harsh reprisals that forced some 7,00,000 Rohingya Muslims out of the mainly Buddhist country. 

Before that incident, Rohingya Muslims have faced persecution for years.
 

Amnesty International said today as quoted from TOI on Wednesday, May 23 2018 the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya was done by soldiers and vigilante mobs and killing civilians and burning down villages.

But the Rohingya militants have also been accused of abuses, ie the mass killing of Hindus in the far north of Rakhine, where the military being the witness the exhumation of putrid bodies from a grave in September.

But the militants that known as the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), denied to responsibility.

Amnesty International said from a  ew investigation, they had confirmed the group of Rohingya Muslims killed 53 Hindus and mostly children, in the Kha Maung Seik village cluster in northern Maungdaw. Citing interviews with eight survivors, the  group said dozens were rounded up, blindfolded and marched out of town by masked men and Rohingya villagers in plain clothes.

 Raj Kumari, 18-year-old is one of survivors and told Amnesty, "They slaughtered the Hindus men. They had knives. They also had some spades and iron rods."

"I hid in the bush and watched as my father, brother and uncle were killed." he added.

Tirana Hassan, crisis response director at Amnesty International said, "Our latest investigation on the ground sheds much-needed light on the largely under-reported human rights abuses by ARSA during northern Rakhine state's dark recent history. Accountability for these atrocities is every bit as crucial as it is for the crimes against humanity carried out by Myanmar's security forces in northern Rakhine state."

From the report of Amnesty said that in a separate village named Ye Bauk Kyar, 46 Hindu men, women and children disappeared on the same day. 

"It cited information from local Hindus who believe they were killed by ARSA," she added.

Before, Rakhine was home mainly to Buddhists and Muslims before the crisis, as well as several other smaller ethnic groups. After the incident on August 25, 2017, Myanmar faced a flood of international condemnation for the its persecution of the Rohingya.

But the  government of Myanmar denies any widespread abuses to Rohingya Muslims who are stateless and have been targeted by bouts of communal violence.

Now, the authorities have severely restricted media access to the conflict zone and barred UN investigators from entering the country. And it make the UN failing to grant access to humanitarian aid workers and researchers and journalists.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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