Arakan News Agency
The Myanmar army’s recognition of involvement in the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslims in the northwestern state of Arakan is just a fraction of the abuses committed by security forces, human rights groups said Thursday.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch called the recognition that ethnic Rakhine villagers and security forces killed 10 Rohingya Muslims in the village of Inn Din on September 2 as a “mountain peak” and called for an international investigation.
Matthew Smith, co-founder of Fortify Rights and its executive director, said the organization had documented similar atrocities across Arakan state, where the army’s repression of Rohingya people had left more than 650,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing the country.
“The massacres and mass graves are a reality in all three towns in the north,” he said in an e-mail to Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
The organization has documented “strong evidence” in villages across the region that “the army killed and raped members of the Rohingya and burned their villages completely,” James Gomez, Amnesty International’s regional director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, said in a statement released on Wednesday.
