'Mounting evidence' of Myanmar genocide, say watchdogs


Myanmar military commander-in-chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing visits Rakhine ethnic refugees who fled from northern Rakhine State, Sittwe, in western Myanmar, on September 21. Myanmar's army have dismissed reports of atrocities and refused to grant entry to UN investigators tasked with probing allegations of ethnic cleansing.– EPA pic, November 16, 2017.

MYANMAR security forces slit the throats of Muslim Rohingya and burned victims alive, watchdogs said in a report yesterday that cited mounting evidence of genocide against the minority group.

The report by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Southeast Asia-based Fortify Rights documents “widespread and systematic attacks” on Rohingya civilians between October 9 and December of last year, and from August 25 of this year.


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