Burmese Army
Proliferate Atrocities against Rohingya Defying Int’l Calls
Maungdaw –
The Burmese (Myanmar) military proliferate mass atrocities and rapes against
the Rohingya ethnic minority in defiance to the international calls to stop the
violence, reliable sources report.
While
continuing to commit unimaginable mass atrocities all over Maungdaw, the
Burmese troops killed at least 40 Rohingya village men, raped over 100 women,
arbitrarily arrested more than 50 women and severely dozens of men, women and
children during the raids on the Sin-thae-pyin (Haanti Fara) and Pan-myaung
(Kappus Sor) villages between November and November 26 alone.
“The
military say ‘Ask your sympathizers from United Nations and OIC; and those who
are protesting for you to come and save you. Until and unless they come to save
you, we will keep killing you and eradicate you all’ before torturing and
killing our people”, said a victim tortured by the troops.
During the
siege of Sin-thae-pyin and Pan-myaung villages on November 25 and 26, the
troops indiscriminately opened firing at the village killing and injuring
dozens of civilians. We have identified the following casualties.
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| Identified shot dead and casualties |
However, the
Burmese troops systematically decimated the evidences of the mass killings with
the collaboration of the Natala Rakhine (Maghs) Buddhists from a nearby village
called ‘Zaydi Pyin.’
“The Burmese
military brought Natalas to Sinthaepyin and Panmyaung around 12:00 noon on
November 26. They carried the corpses of the Rohingya civilians killed away
from the villages. Then, they buried the dead bodies in mass by digging a grave
at the sand flat located to the east of Sinthaepyin. Some dead bodies were
thrown away in the river between Sinthaepyin and Panmyaung, while some other
bodies were buried amidst the cashew plantation at Sabbay Gone village,” said
an eyewitness asking to withhold his identity.
Around the
same time, they arbitrarily arrested many innocent villagers; and humiliated
and RAPED dozens of women on November 25.
“The troops
raped many village women in the village on November 25. Of many women, three
beautiful girls were singled out and taken to the jungles. They gang-raped them
to their hearts’ contents and the girls returned to the village injured and
week on November 26 morning,” the eyewitness added.
On November
26 at 7:00 am, approximately 200 Burmese troops raided the village of Sinthaepyin;
and humiliated 300 women and RAPED over 80.
“They forced
all of us out to the streets and stripped us off totally. They robbed our
jewelries and forced us to sit nude in public for two and half hours. They
tortured us and raped at least 100 of us,” said a women as she kept weeping as
she too was a victim of the public molestations by the Burmese troops on
November 26.
We have
identified 24 women of the approximately 100 women who were either molested or
raped by the Burmese military.
Elsewhere, a
Rohingya woman was raped by Burmese troops at gun-points at Zee Pin Chaung
(Zeeyaung Khali) village at around 2:00 pm on November 28. She is identified to
be R….. ( daughter of) Mv. O….., 40.
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Anas S/O Mv
Noor Alam, 17, was
shot dead by BGP at Ngakura
(Nagpura) on Nov 28, 2016
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A teenager
identified to be Mohammed Anas (son of) Mv Noor Alam, 17, was also shot dead by
Border Guard Police (BGP) at Ngakura (Nagpura) at 5:45 pm on November 28. He
was shot at his back by two BGP personnel arriving on a motorcycle while he was
talking to his friend by roadside.
At ‘Taung
Pyo Letya’ sub-township in northern Maungdaw on November 26, the Border Guard
Police (BGP) arrested two Rohingya youths on a trumped up allegation of
offering meals to the alleged militants in the region.
They were
arrested while they came to participate in the household inquiries (a kind of
census specially designed against Rohingya population) conducted by the BGP at
the Kwan Thi Pin (Kuansi Baung) village. They were blindfolded and taken to the
BGP Headquarter at Kyikanpyin.