Myanmar army says to punish soldiers in Rohingya atrocities probe

ဖော်ပြချက်/အကြောင်းအရာ: 

" Myanmar’s army will court-martial soldiers after a new finding in an inquiry into atrocities in Rakhine state, from which more than 730,000 Rohingya Muslims fled a 2017 army-led campaign the United Nations says was executed with “genocidal intent”. On Saturday, the website of Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing said a military court that visited the northern state found soldiers had shown “weakness in following instructions in some incidents” at a village said to have been a Rohingya massacre site. In 2018, the Associated Press news agency reported the existence of at least five graves of Rohingya in the village, Gutarpyin, in the township of Buthidaung. But government officials at the time said 19 “terrorists” had died and their bodies were “carefully buried”. On Sunday, military spokesman Tun Tun Nyi told Reuters the investigation’s findings were secret..."

Creator/author: 

Sam Aung Moon

ရင်းမြစ်: 

"Reuters"

Date of Publication: 

2019-09-01

Date of entry: 

2019-09-01

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အကြောင်းအရာ/အမျိုးအစား: 

Countries: 

Myanmar

Language: 

English

Resource Type: 

text

Text quality: 

    • Good