Myanmar Rohingya militants massacred Hindus, says Amnesty

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Myanmar Rohingya militants massacred Hindus, says Amnesty

Amnesty says there were many children among the Hindus killed

Rohingya Muslim militants in Myanmar killed dozens of Hindu civilians during attacks last August, according to an investigation by Amnesty International.

The group called Arsa killed up to 99 Hindu civilians in one, or possibly two massacres, said the rights group. Arsa had denied involvement.

The killings came in the first days of an uprising against Burmese forces, who are also accused of atrocities.

Since August nearly 700,000 Rohingyas and others have fled the violence.

The conflict has also displaced members of the majority Buddhist population in Myanmar (also called Burma) as well as members of the Hindu minority.

Amnesty says interviews it conducted with refugees in Bangladesh and in Rakhine state confirmed that mass killings carried out by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa) took place in a cluster of villages in northern Maungdaw Township at the time of its attacks on police posts in late August.

The findings also show Arsa was responsible for violence against civilians, on a smaller scale, in other areas.

Arsa has released videos featuring its leader Ata Ullah (centre)

The report details how Arsa members on 26 August attacked the Hindu village of Ah Nauk Kha Maung Seik.

"In this brutal and senseless act, members of Arsa captured scores of Hindu women, men and children and terrorised them before slaughtering them outside their own villages," the report said.

Hindu survivors told Amnesty they either saw relatives being killed or heard their screams.

One woman from the village of Ah Nauk Kha Maung Seik said: "They slaughtered the men. We were told not to look at them … They had knives. They also had some spades and iron rods. … We hid ourselves in the shrubs there and were able to see a little … My uncle, my father, my brother - they were all slaughtered."

FULL STORY: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44206372

 

[Goenitz]

Myanmar Rohingya militants massacred Hindus, says Amnesty

Amnesty says there were many children among the Hindus killed

Rohingya Muslim militants in Myanmar killed dozens of Hindu civilians during attacks last August, according to an investigation by Amnesty International.

The group called Arsa killed up to 99 Hindu civilians in one, or possibly two massacres, said the rights group. Arsa had denied involvement.

The killings came in the first days of an uprising against Burmese forces, who are also accused of atrocities.

Since August nearly 700,000 Rohingyas and others have fled the violence.

The conflict has also displaced members of the majority Buddhist population in Myanmar (also called Burma) as well as members of the Hindu minority.

Amnesty says interviews it conducted with refugees in Bangladesh and in Rakhine state confirmed that mass killings carried out by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa) took place in a cluster of villages in northern Maungdaw Township at the time of its attacks on police posts in late August.

The findings also show Arsa was responsible for violence against civilians, on a smaller scale, in other areas.

Arsa has released videos featuring its leader Ata Ullah (centre)

The report details how Arsa members on 26 August attacked the Hindu village of Ah Nauk Kha Maung Seik.

"In this brutal and senseless act, members of Arsa captured scores of Hindu women, men and children and terrorised them before slaughtering them outside their own villages," the report said.

Hindu survivors told Amnesty they either saw relatives being killed or heard their screams.

One woman from the village of Ah Nauk Kha Maung Seik said: "They slaughtered the men. We were told not to look at them … They had knives. They also had some spades and iron rods. … We hid ourselves in the shrubs there and were able to see a little … My uncle, my father, my brother - they were all slaughtered."

FULL STORY: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44206372

could be mayanmar army or their sympathiser in disguise to get rid of both muslims and hindus...

 

[Aung Zaya]

Rohingya 'carried out massacre of Hindus in Myanmar', says Amnesty International

A detailed examination of evidence has led Amnesty to conclude a militant group killed dozens of villagers in Rakhine.

By Phil Whiteside, news reporter

Myanmar's army was not the only group that slaughtered civilians in the country, Amnesty International has concluded.

Rohingya insurgents carried out at least one brutal massacre in Rakhine state, the organisation says.


Amnesty has investigated the alleged killings of minority Hindus on 25 August last year and concluded that Rohingya militants were involved.

The Rohingya are an ethnic group, the majority of whom are Muslim, who have lived for centuries in the mainly Buddhist country of Myanmar, also known as Burma.

Minority Hindus also live alongside them.

Image: Bina Bala, a 22-year-old who survived a massacre by the armed group ARSA
Claims that Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) had carried out a massacre in a village called Ah Nauk Kha Maung Sei first surfaced hours after it took place.

The claims came from government and security forces.

On the same day, Rohingya militants attacked 30 police posts and an army base in Rakhine, a move that provoked a counter-offensive by the army that eventually drove nearly 700,000 Rohingya civilians into Bangladesh.

Mass graves containing dozens of bodies were said to have been found at the time. About 100 Hindus were also reported missing.

In December, Myanmar's military flew reporters to a spot in the north of Rakhine where they showed the bodies of Hindus in mass graves.

Image: Part of a list given to Amnesty International by Hindu community leaders, giving details of 100 Hindus killed
The reports proved hard to confirm initially as survivors who reached Bangladesh gave conflicting accounts. Some blamed ethnic Rakhine villagers.

Amnesty International said it had carried out "a careful review of evidence" including a study of the statements of witnesses and the analysis of images by forensic pathologists.

One of the women they spoke to, 22-year-old Bina Bala, told Amnesty: "They [ARSA] came to our house.

"[The men] held knives and long iron rods. They tied our hands behind our backs and blindfolded us.

"I asked what they were doing. One of them replied, 'You and [ethnic] Rakhine are the same, you have a different religion, you can't live here.' They asked what belongings we had, then they beat us."

Tirana Hassan, Amnesty's crisis response director, said: "Our latest investigation on the ground sheds much-needed light on the largely under-reported human rights abuses by ARSA during northern Rakhine state's unspeakably dark recent history.

Image: An aerial view shows burned down villages once inhabited by the Rohingya
"Accountability for these atrocities is every bit as crucial as it is for the crimes against humanity carried out by Myanmar's security forces."

Doctors Without Borders estimates at least 6,700 Rohingya were killed during the first month of the conflict with the army in Rakhine.

ARSA has not yet responded to the Amnesty International report.

It is unclear why the alleged attack was carried out, but some suspect the militants believed the Hindu community sympathised with the predominantly Buddhist government's anti-Rohingya stance.
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for the ones who said before these Hindu people are killed by Myanmar army ,not so called rohingya. @Nilgiri @MyintMyat @Devilduck

 

[atan651]

Not that innocent after all!

 

[Robinhood Pandey]

Thats Ok . . those must be halal killings.

 

[Species]

Lol, journalists and experts are not even allowed to enter Rakhine by the Myanmar military to collect evidence. And here we see a study with a "detailed examination of evidence".

Most likely selected interviews at gun point by Myanmar military.

The only evidence from Rakhine is that possessed by Reuters, thanks to those two journalists who sneaked into the area but are now detained by Myanmar.

Btw, thread already posted here: https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/myanmar-rohingya-militants-massacred-hindus-says-amnesty.560023/

@waz @The Eagle kindly merge the two.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Ya whenever the Burmese terrorist Govt need more excuses the ARSA come to the scene instantly to their aide. Coincidence after coincidence. Who will take these Burmese seriously after killing ten thousands of Rohingyas with many more injured, shoving up 90% of Rohingyas inside BD with raped women and rape childs, tons of excuses to not take them back and solve their issues. Nobody is gonna take these Burmans seriously after committing the text book style genocide. There are just some pro Burmese rohingyas as well including Hindus and they can be bought

Is it mere coincidence that the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) went on a huge pre-dawn offensive attacking 19 police stations and one army camp in Northern Rakhine barely six hours after former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan presented his Rakhine Commission report on Thursday?

The ARSA has said in its Twitter message that their attack was to break the blockade by security forces of Rohingya dominated areas that forced them into "defensive action".

The message said that the blockade has reduced towns like Rathidaung and Buthidaung to "near starvation".

There is no independent corroboration of such allegations - the barring of media by the Myanmar authorities has made it impossible to check on that.

But while there could be some truth in allegations that the Tatmadaw was blocking food supplies, why did the ARSA have to wait to launch the attacks -- the biggest since October -- until Kofi Annan had presented his Rakhine commission report to the President and State Counselor and addressed the media conference?

The coincidence is too striking to be overlooked.

The Annan report,made public with its strong conclusions, internationalised the Rakhine State issue in a big way. It was covered across the world as journalists from the major global media were present at the media conference at the Sule Shangrila Hotel in Yangon on Thursday evening. The press especially in Muslim-predominant countries covered the event in a big way.

The ARSA had surely planned the strike if what they say is to be believed. If the northern Rakhine 'blockade' was the cause behind the pre-dawn offensive, the timing was clearly influenced by the Annan Committee report going public.

They decided to garner greater attention to their cause after the Kofi Annan report had brought them some global notice.

Such an extensive attack, carried out in the middle of a military campaign in the Mayu mountains, would have taken time to plan. The mobilisation of so many fighters would not be easy to conceal unless done with great care and deception. So though the planning had been done for a while, a few weeks if not months, the ARSA would have decided to wait for Kofi Annan to make public his report.

As some residents of Maungdaw and Buthidaung have indicated, a lot of armed villagers joined the ARSA rebels in the offensive, if only with sharp weapons like machetes.

The Maoists in India, rebels in Indian Kashmir and Taliban in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region use angry villagers to join their core hit squads to (a) boost numbers needed for a deadly second sweep on the targets, (b) conceal rebel formations by ringing them with villagers, and (c) project the political mass base of the guerilla group.

It seems the ARSA, who have received military training in Pakistan and ideological training from some hardline Saudi clerics have adopted these massing tactics while planning a major attack like the one in October or on Friday.

Its links with Pakistan's LET is known to Myanmar intelligence. It also has links to Bangladesh's dreaded Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) responsible for last year's Holey Artisan Bakery attack in Dhaka. Some reports have also indicated that ARSA's nucleus is one small terror cell made of Rohingyas who collaborated with Indian Mujahideen to set off the Julo 2013 Bodh Gaya bombings in eastern India. That cell was allegedly shepherded by Pakistan's ISI, who then used the LET's humanitarian front Fala e Insaniyat recruit young radicalised Rohingyas .

Mizzima had exposed these links last year ( http://www.mizzima.com/news-domestic-regional/pakistan-links-rohingya-mi...).

The military operations in the Mayu mountains of Rakhine State, in which the Tatmadaw is fielding the 33rd Light Infantry Division, has forced the ARSA on the defensive .

They needed a diversionary attack to draw the security forces away from the enveloping campaign to encircle the ARSA's core base zone in the Mayu mountains by launching a major attack somewhere else.

Friday's attack on a wide area around three townships -- Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Rathedaung -- was meant to draw the forces away from the offensive operations into static deployments to guard police stations, government offices, roads, villages and other possible targets.

But it also suggests a a failure of the government's intelligence machinery (military and police) to spot the large mobilisation of guerrillas to staging posts, from where the attacks were launched.

That is something the security forces, especially the Tatmadaw, needs to worry about.

How could 1,000 armed people (not all ARSA though) be mobilised without the intelligence spotting it? That would suggest the intelligence penetration in Rohingya areas is minimal despite much resources going into it.

A complete breakdown of inter-ethnic relations can also dry up sources for intelligence -- that has happened in Kashmir or the Maoist areas of Central India and is now perhaps unfolding in the Rohingya areas of northern Rakhine.
http://www.mizzima.com/news-opinion/mere-coincidence

 

[Cookie Monster]

Thats Ok . . those must be halal killings.

The link is missing so I can't speak for the authenticity of this article that OP has posted.

...but in any case, I can see that u consider amnesty international a credible source.

So I'm curious what's ur stance about amnesty international's reports about rapes, mass graves, and other human rights violations that occurred in IOK. Should I mock ur religion and call those "rakhi-bandhan rapes"?

 

[Robinhood Pandey]

I'm curious what's ur stance about amnesty international's reports about rapes, mass graves, and other human rights violations that occurred in IOK

My answer will remain the same "Thats Ok . . those must be halal killings".

Should I mock ur religion and call those

Go ahead . . . . my dharma in neither that weak that your mocking will dent it in any way nor i am that insecure that i will charge towards you shouting " kill those who insult my dharma".

 

[Aung Zaya]

The link is missing so I can't speak for the authenticity of this article that OP has posted.

...but in any case, I can see that u consider amnesty international a credible source.

So I'm curious what's ur stance about amnesty international's reports about rapes, mass graves, and other human rights violations that occurred in IOK. Should I mock ur religion and call those "rakhi-bandhan rapes"?

Rohingya Insurgents Massacred Hindu Civilians in Myanmar, Amnesty International Reports

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By Laignee Barron
11:54 PM EDT
Last August, nearly 100 Hindu villagers were massacred, their bodies found buried in mass graves in Myanmar’s conflict-ridden Rakhine state. For nearly a year, it’s been unclear who perpetrated the attack. The Myanmar military blamed a Muslim Rohingya insurgent group known as ARSA, while the militants pinned the slaughter on the largely Buddhist state security forces. A new report by Amnesty International holds the insurgents responsible for the bloodshed.

According to Amnesty, armed men dressed in black and plain-clothed Rohingya villagers appeared in the village of Ah Nauk Kha Maung Seik around 8 a.m. local time and rounded up dozens of Hindu women, men and children. Starting with the men, the victims were blindfolded and 53 people executed.

Eight survivors told Amnesty they saw their relatives killed, or heard their screams.

“They slaughtered the men. We were told not to look at them … They had knives. They also had some spades and iron rods. … We hid ourselves in the shrubs there and were able to see a little … My uncle, my father, my brother – they were all slaughtered,” said Raj Kumari, 18, according to the report.

In a neighboring village, Ye Bauk Kyar, another 46 Hindu villagers disappeared, allegedly killed by the Rohingya insurgents.

“Members of ARSA captured scores of Hindu women, men, and children and terrorized them before slaughtering them outside their own villages. The perpetrators of this heinous crime must be held to account,” said Tirana Hassan, Amnesty’s crisis response director.

The atrocities committed against the Hindu community allegedly occurred on the same day that the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) attacked 30 Myanmar military outposts, prompting bloody reprisals. Around 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled over the border to Bangladesh amid a military-led campaign of violence the U.N. called “ethnic cleansing.” According to Doctors Without Borders, at least 6,700 Rohingya were killed during the first month alone.

Yet despite widespread refugee accounts of rape, torture, arson and extrajudicial killings, the Myanmar government has insistently denied the military forces committed any serious abuses. So when the government discovered two mass graves in September and claimed the Hindu victims had been killed by ARSA, the account was met with skepticism. Independent observers and journalists have also been barred from accessing the conflict area except on government escorted trips, further exacerbating doubts about the credibility of the government’s conclusion.

When Hindu survivors reached Bangladesh, the narrative was further muddied by refugees’ conflicting accounts.

Amnesty says the inconsistencies were the result of “pressures and threats to personal safety,” with ARSA forcing the victims to pin the Hindu massacres on Buddhist Rakhine villagers return

After the Hindu refugees returned to Myanmar in October, they “unambiguously asserted that Rohingya, believed to be ARSA fighters, were responsible,” Amnesty says. According to the rights group, this witness testimony was backed up by forensic analysis of 31 photos of exhumed bodies.

Amnesty added that it also documented ARSA’s involvement in other murders and attacks around Maungdaw township, the epicenter of the renewed violence.

ARSA has previously denied killing Hindus or attacking any civilians, but has not released a statement in several months. Social media accounts purporting to represent the militant organization have also gone quiet.

Amnesty called for an independent investigation to bring justice to all victims and survivors in Rakhine state.

“ARSA’s appalling attacks were followed by the Myanmar military’s ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya population as a whole,” said Hassan. “Both must be condemned — human rights violations or abuses by one side never justify abuses or violations by the other.”
http://time.com/5288063/amnesty-report-rohingya-militants-massacred-hindus-in-myanmar/

 

[TopCat]

Interview done at the gunpoint.
Hindu refugee in BD says they were attacked by moga (slang used for burmese)

 

[Jugger]

I asked what they were doing. One of them replied, 'You and [ethnic] Rakhine are the same, you have a different religion, you can't live here.' They asked what belongings we had, then they beat us."

This is the reason for majority of terrorism throughout the world.
When will people evolve out of religious hatred..?

 

[Cookie Monster]

Rohingya Insurgents Massacred Hindu Civilians in Myanmar, Amnesty International Reports

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By Laignee Barron
11:54 PM EDT
Last August, nearly 100 Hindu villagers were massacred, their bodies found buried in mass graves in Myanmar’s conflict-ridden Rakhine state. For nearly a year, it’s been unclear who perpetrated the attack. The Myanmar military blamed a Muslim Rohingya insurgent group known as ARSA, while the militants pinned the slaughter on the largely Buddhist state security forces. A new report by Amnesty International holds the insurgents responsible for the bloodshed.

According to Amnesty, armed men dressed in black and plain-clothed Rohingya villagers appeared in the village of Ah Nauk Kha Maung Seik around 8 a.m. local time and rounded up dozens of Hindu women, men and children. Starting with the men, the victims were blindfolded and 53 people executed.

Eight survivors told Amnesty they saw their relatives killed, or heard their screams.

“They slaughtered the men. We were told not to look at them … They had knives. They also had some spades and iron rods. … We hid ourselves in the shrubs there and were able to see a little … My uncle, my father, my brother – they were all slaughtered,” said Raj Kumari, 18, according to the report.

In a neighboring village, Ye Bauk Kyar, another 46 Hindu villagers disappeared, allegedly killed by the Rohingya insurgents.

“Members of ARSA captured scores of Hindu women, men, and children and terrorized them before slaughtering them outside their own villages. The perpetrators of this heinous crime must be held to account,” said Tirana Hassan, Amnesty’s crisis response director.

The atrocities committed against the Hindu community allegedly occurred on the same day that the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) attacked 30 Myanmar military outposts, prompting bloody reprisals. Around 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled over the border to Bangladesh amid a military-led campaign of violence the U.N. called “ethnic cleansing.” According to Doctors Without Borders, at least 6,700 Rohingya were killed during the first month alone.

Yet despite widespread refugee accounts of rape, torture, arson and extrajudicial killings, the Myanmar government has insistently denied the military forces committed any serious abuses. So when the government discovered two mass graves in September and claimed the Hindu victims had been killed by ARSA, the account was met with skepticism. Independent observers and journalists have also been barred from accessing the conflict area except on government escorted trips, further exacerbating doubts about the credibility of the government’s conclusion.

When Hindu survivors reached Bangladesh, the narrative was further muddied by refugees’ conflicting accounts.

Amnesty says the inconsistencies were the result of “pressures and threats to personal safety,” with ARSA forcing the victims to pin the Hindu massacres on Buddhist Rakhine villagers return

After the Hindu refugees returned to Myanmar in October, they “unambiguously asserted that Rohingya, believed to be ARSA fighters, were responsible,” Amnesty says. According to the rights group, this witness testimony was backed up by forensic analysis of 31 photos of exhumed bodies.

Amnesty added that it also documented ARSA’s involvement in other murders and attacks around Maungdaw township, the epicenter of the renewed violence.

ARSA has previously denied killing Hindus or attacking any civilians, but has not released a statement in several months. Social media accounts purporting to represent the militant organization have also gone quiet.

Amnesty called for an independent investigation to bring justice to all victims and survivors in Rakhine state.

“ARSA’s appalling attacks were followed by the Myanmar military’s ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya population as a whole,” said Hassan. “Both must be condemned — human rights violations or abuses by one side never justify abuses or violations by the other.”
http://time.com/5288063/amnesty-report-rohingya-militants-massacred-hindus-in-myanmar/

Thanks for the link

My answer will remain the same "Thats Ok . . those must be halal killings".

Typical expected behavior of double standards and hypocrisy...keep that hate going

 

[Robinhood Pandey]

Typical expected behavior of double standards and hypocrisy...keep that hate going

You crumbled faster than a cookie . . . good night

 

[TopCat]

The women who talked to the UN security council member while visiting Rakhine state disappeared the following day.
Should we expect Hindus will speak the truth blaming the burmese for the crime????