By BBC
***Warning: This report
contains distressing scenes including explicit descriptions of sexual violence***
The chilling story
of a massacre of Rohingya Muslims in a small village called Tula Toli ( Mingyi in Burmese), northern Maungdaw of northern Rakhine State in Myanmar, formerly known
as Burma.
On 30 August
government soldiers swept through the village setting fire to homes, raping and
killing dozens, possibly hundreds of its Muslim inhabitants. An ongoing
military crackdown in the state has seen more than 500,000 Rohingya Muslims
flee to neighbouring Bangladesh since late August.
The government of
Aung San Suu Kyi has faced international condemnation over the crisis. She says
the military is responding to attacks by Rohingya militants. But the Rohingya
have long been persecuted in Myanmar: denied citizenship, decent healthcare and
education.
For Assignment Gabriel
Gatehouse, James Clayton and Jack Garland investigate the massacre in Tula
Toli. Speaking to survivors in camps in Bangladesh, he pieces together a
picture of horrific violence, perpetrated in what has been described as a
“textbook example of ethnic cleansing.” And he hears evidence that suggests the
violence may have been planned in advance.