Rohingya Crisis

AP confirms 5 new Myanmar mass graves

Petrol bomb thrown at Suu Kyi's villa

The Associated Press on Wednesday published a report detailing the existence of several previously undisclosed mass graves of Rohingya Muslims in the Rakhine State of Myanmar along with shocking details of the systematic execution of victims and attempts to hide evidence of the crime, reports US based National Public Radio quoting AP. The lengthy report by the AP's Foster Klug relied on interviews with more than two dozen refugees who managed to escape from soldiers and flee to neighboring Bangladesh at the start of a brutal military crackdown on the Rohingya in August. Some of the survivors provided the news agency with time-stamped

cellphone videos supporting their claims. The AP uncovered evidence of at least five mass graves at one location, Gu Dar Pyin, that bolster charges leveled by the U.S. and United Nations of ethnic cleansing in the country's northern Rakhine state. About 200 soldiers, known as Tatmadaw, swept into the area on Aug. 27, according to witnesses. One of them, Mohammad Sha, 37, a shop owner and farmer, told the news agency that he "hid in a grove of coconut trees near a river with more than 100 others.

Rohingya Crisis

AP confirms 5 new Myanmar mass graves

Petrol bomb thrown at Suu Kyis villa

The Associated Press on Wednesday published a report detailing the existence of several previously undisclosed mass graves of Rohingya Muslims in the Rakhine State of Myanmar along with shocking details of the systematic execution of victims and attempts to hide evidence of the crime, reports US based National Public Radio quoting AP. The lengthy report by the APs Foster Klug relied on interviews with more than two dozen refugees who managed to escape from soldiers and flee to neighboring Bangladesh at the start of a brutal military crackdown on the Rohingya in August. Some of the survivors provided the news agency with time-stamped cellphone videos supporting their claims. The AP uncovered evidence of at least five mass graves at one location, Gu Dar Pyin, that bolster charges leveled by the U.S. and United Nations of ethnic cleansing in the countrys northern Rakhine state. About 200 soldiers, known as Tatmadaw, swept into the area on Aug. 27, according to witnesses. One of them, Mohammad Sha, 37, a shop owner and farmer, told the news agency that he hid in a grove of coconut trees near a river with more than 100 others.