"LAST WEEK?S explosive Reuters investigation into the killings of 10 Rohingya at Inn Din in northern Rakhine State in September made for grim reading. In what is one of the best, most detailed reports on the crisis, the Reuters team ? including journalists Ko Wa Lone and Ko Kyaw Soe Oo who were arrested in December while researching the story and remain in jail ? documented how government troops and Buddhist villagers carried out the killings and buried the victims in a single grave. Few who have seen it will forget the haunting photograph of the kneeling men surrounded by security forces shortly before their death. In this case, the ?picture tells a thousand words” cliché rang true. But the text was just as powerful; a 4,500-word indictment of the authorities? brazen denials that its forces have been responsible for systematic human rights abuses. Of course, the military has already admitted that its forces, together with Buddhist villagers, killed the 10 men. It did this to pre-empt the release of the Reuters report, and after its own investigation had claimed that no such killings took place...".....This editorial appears in the February 15 edition of Frontier. Tags: Rakhine State Inn Din Rohingya Tatmadaw refugees