Myanmar to hold court martial after Rohingya atrocities probe

Title: 

Myanmar to hold court martial after Rohingya atrocities probe

Sub-title: 

Army says court martial proceedings are under way after inquiry at village said to have been a Rohingya mass grave site.

ဖော်ပြချက်/အကြောင်းအရာ: 

"Myanmar's army says rare court martial proceedings are under way following an investigation into atrocities in Rakhine state, two years after a brutal military crackdown forced more than 700,000 Rohingya into Bangladesh. In a statement on Saturday, the office of Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing said a military court that visited the northwestern state found soldiers had shown "weakness in following instructions in some incidents" at a village said to have been a massacre site of the Rohingya, a Muslim-majority, long-persecuted minority in Myanmar. No additional details were provided. In 2018, The Associated Press news agency reported the existence of at least five graves of Rohingya in the village, Gu Dar Pyin, in the township of Buthidaung..."

ရင်းမြစ်: 

"Al Jazeera"

Date of Publication: 

2019-09-02

Date of entry: 

2019-09-02

Grouping: 

  • Individual Documents

အကြောင်းအရာ/အမျိုးအစား: 

Countries: 

Myanmar, Bangladesh

Administrative areas of Burma/Myanmar: 

Rakhine State

Language: 

English

Resource Type: 

text

Text quality: 

    • Good

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