Arakan News Agency
The Myanmar Army admitted that some of its members and residents of villages had killed 10 Rohingya Muslims in Arakan State.
The villagers and security forces accused of killing the Rohingya will be punished according to the law, an army statement said.
Myanmar’s army said on Wednesday (January 10, 2018) that soldiers and villagers were responsible for the deaths of 10 Rohingya Muslims, whose bodies were found in a graveyard last month in Arakan state. The army vowed to punish them.
The two ethnic villagers from Rakhine and the security forces will be punished according to the law for killing “Bengali terrorists” – the Rohingya – in the village of Inn Din, in a statement posted on the commander-in-chief of the army on Facebook. The second of September last year.
The Bengalis are the preferred term for referring to the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, and are cited as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, although many have lived in Myanmar for generations.
The Rohingya was first arrested and then killed, the statement said.
The army began an investigation into the incident last month after a mass grave was found in the village’s cemetery. More than 650,000 Rohingya have fled security operations described by the United Nations as “ethnic cleansing”, while the Myanmar army has so far denied all allegations of gross human rights violations.
