The reports were verified by the Associated Press through multiple eyewitnesses from the village of Gu Dar Pyin and by obtaining time-stamped mobile phone videos of disfigured corpses
Source/Credit: The Diplomat
By Nicola Smith /Habib Ullah | February 1, 2018
The existence of five new Rohingya mass graves was revealed on Friday as further evidence of the systematic slaughter of the persecuted Muslim minority in Burma’s western Rakhine state since last August.
The reports, verified by the Associated Press through multiple eyewitnesses from the village of Gu Dar Pyin and by obtaining time-stamped mobile phone videos of disfigured corpses, attribute new atrocities to a military crackdown that is increasingly looking like crimes against humanity.
Yanghee Lee, the United Nations special envoy on human rights in predominantly Buddhist Burma, said on Thursday that the military’s operations against the Rohingya bear “the hallmarks of a genocide.” [more ...]
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