• Myanmar's military clears itself over reported Rohingya atrocities
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[QUOTE](CNN)Myanmar's military has acquitted itself of any wrongdoing against [URL="http://www.cnn.com/specials/asia/rohingya"]Rohingya[/URL] Muslims in Rakhine State in an internal report, denying widespread reports of murder, rape and destruction in the west of the country.Since late August,[URL="http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/12/asia/myanmar-rohingya-tula-toli-massacre-testimony/index.html"] at least 615,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled across the border[/URL] from Myanmar into Bangladesh, bringing with them grim stories of physical and sexual violence perpetrated by the country's military. The UN and the UK have described it as ethnic cleansing. In the report released Monday, Myanmar's military, known as the Tatmadaw, blamed the violence on members of the Rohingya militant group[URL="http://cnn.com/2017/09/12/asia/arsa-rohingya-militants-who-are-they/index.html"] Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ASRA)[/URL], which it said attacked 30 police posts and an army battalion headquarters on August 25. "Security forces did not commit shooting at innocent villagers and sexual violence and rape cases against women. They did not arrest, beat and kill the villagers," the report said. It also cleared security forces of robbing Rohingya, as well as burning their mosques and villages. Amnesty International described the report as an attempt by the military to [URL="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/11/myanmar-military-attempts-to-whitewash-crimes-against-humanity-targeting-rohingya/"]"sweep serious violations against the Rohingya under the carpet."[/URL] [URL="http://edition.cnn.com/specials/asia/rohingya"] [/URL] "There is overwhelming evidence that the military has murdered and raped Rohingya and burned their villages to the ground," Amnesty said. "After recording countless stories of horror and using satellite analysis to track the growing devastation we can only reach one conclusion: these attacks amount to crimes against humanity." The military said the report, which posted on the military's official Facebook page, was based on interviews with more than 2,800 Rohingya and other ethnic groups between October 13 and November 7. The report comes as Myanmar's State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi met for a bilateral discussion with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday behind closed doors. The two met in Manila during the 31st summit of the Association of South-east Asian Nations, or ASEAN. Following the meeting they shook hands in front of waiting media but didn't take any questions. Tillerson will be heading to Myanmar on Wednesday where US officials say he will push for a solution to end the violence against the Rohingya. [/QUOTE] [url]http://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/13/asia/myanmar-military-rohingya/index.html[/url] Disgusting, and yet no actions from so many countries.
Wow, shame on those million displaced Rohingya for just lying about what happened to them like that. Glad the Burmese military cleared that all up for the rest of us, I would have never guessed it. :rolleyes:
Of course it cleared itself. Why wouldn't it? Did anyone honestly expect anything else? I'd be like handing replacing Bob Mueller with Jared Kushner and then being surprised to hear findings of no collusion...
Yep, its the same Burman military that claimed that the Rohingya people are "too ugly" to be Burmese. They are not grounded in reality. :hammered:
UN proving to be a wad of useless cunts once again
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