Mass grave of 28 Hindus found in Myanmar: army


Yangon, Sep 25 (AFP): Myanmar's army said Sunday it had discovered a mass grave containing the bodies of 28 Hindus, including women and children, in violence-wracked Rakhine state, blaming the killings on Muslim Rohingya militants.

Thousands of Hindus have fled villages where they once lived alongside Muslims, alleging that they were targeted by militants whose August 25 raids plunged Rakhine into communal violence.

The announcement could not be independently verified in an region where access has been tightly controlled by Myanmar's army.

"Security members found and dug up 28 dead bodies of Hindus who were cruelly and violently killed by ARSA extremist Bengali terrorists in Rakhine State," a statement posted on the army chief's website said.

The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) is the group whose attacks on police posts triggered an army backlash so brutal that the UN believes it amounts to ethnic cleansing of the Muslim minority.

More than 430,000 Rohingya have fled the region to Bangladesh in under a month, telling stories of Myanmar soldiers teaming up with vigilante mobs to slaughter civilians and burn entire villages to the ground.

Around 30,000 Hindus and Buddhists based in the area have also been displaced by the violence.

Both communities have told AFP they were terrorised by Rohingya militants.
The army said that security officers found a total of 20 dead women and eight men in two graves, including six boys under the age of ten.

A strong smell led security officers to the burial site outside of Ye Baw Kya village, the army said.

Unverifiable photos published by the government's Information Committee showed corpses laid out in rows on grass near two mud pits where they were found.

Myanmar government spokesman Zaw Htay confirmed the grim discovery to AFP, as did a senior police officer in Rakhine who requested anonymity.

The village where the bodies were found, Ye Baw Kya, lies near a cluster of Hindu and Muslim communities in northern Rakhine called Kha Maung Seik.

Last week Hindus from the area told AFP that militants swept into their villages on August 25 with sticks and knives, attacking people who stood in their way, killing many and taking others into the forest.

Hindu women are believed to have been abducted by the militants.
The grim discovery of the graves will further fuel already white-hot hatred between ethnic groups in Myanmar.

The epicentre of the unrest, in northern Rakhine, is dominated by Rohingya Muslims who are a minority elsewhere and have been the target of decades of state-backed persecution and discrimination.

Around half of their estimated 1.1 million population has fled over the last year.
Northern Rakhine is also home to ethnic Rakhine Buddhists, Hindus and a myriad of other groups.

Religious tensions have simmered for years, erupting into sporadic bouts of violence.
But the scale of the latest unrest is the worst to hit the region in years.

While the wretched lines of Rohingya streaming into Bangladesh have shocked and alarmed the world, there is scant sympathy for the Muslim group inside Myanmar.
Many in the Buddhist majority view the group as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, despite their long-established roots in the country.

  

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  • prem, moodbidri

    Mon, Sep 25 2017

    Paper simhaji... Myanmar Chalo

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  • Mohammed, Kundapur/Qatar

    Mon, Sep 25 2017

    Lakhs of people has been killed in myanmar, now they found only 28 hindus bodies?
    can't it be mistaken identity while killing?

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  • Ahmed, Bangalore

    Mon, Sep 25 2017

    Instead of blaming Rohingya Muslims why not the Mynmar military accept it's atrocities? Why putting their crimes on others? By do you such cheap tactics, Do you think your image will be clean in front of the world? May be indian Government or Fasicts may accept your cooked up story, but not the other world.

    Accept your crimes you dirty murderers in the guise of your military uniform. Shame on you and your clan. Let God's wrath fall upon you at the earliest so that it remain a lesson to others.

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  • Ahmed K.C., Mangalore

    Mon, Sep 25 2017

    Read this news to know who is killing whom?
    Sep, 04 2017, Hindus from Myanmar have joined streams of Muslim Rohingyas to seek refuge in Bangladesh after the killing of 86 people from their community in the ethnic violence in the neighbouring Buddhist-majority country.
    Officials said nearly 500 Hindus arrived in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar, bordering Myanmar, along with tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims amid escalated violence at home.
    Accusing Rohingya Muslims of killing 28 Hindus is part of “Conspiracy Theories”

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  • Rajesh, Udupi

    Mon, Sep 25 2017

    With more proof of bloodthursty nature of rohingya rogues, their blood relative sickulars here will continue showcase love.. why? Offcource sickulars hate hidus.. rohingyas not just hate, but kill hidus.. both bhai bhai

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  • sri_elder, Karkala

    Mon, Sep 25 2017

    Hindus are real minorities in this world population...

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  • kamath, mani

    Mon, Sep 25 2017

    Good deal Mitro....what n Idea Sir J....

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  • Sachin Shetty, Mangalore

    Mon, Sep 25 2017

    If this is true then the debate ends here...they should never be allowed to come to our country....

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  • AndhBhakth, Pandora

    Mon, Sep 25 2017

    How come bodies are hindus ?

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  • Gudana, Mangalore

    Mon, Sep 25 2017

    This is how propaganda of any militant org work...They can go on massacring more people with the pretext of it....Junta govt backed by Buddhist militants are doing the same

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  • mark sebastin, bangalore

    Mon, Sep 25 2017

    Hindus and Buddhists were brutally hacked to death by Rohingyas. they are a potential danger for internal security and they are working on the concept of fake victimisation. Do they want entry into non-Islamic countries, why OIC cannot give them shelter?

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  • Nawaz, Udupi/Kuwait

    Mon, Sep 25 2017

    @Mark Sebatin,

    Your comments seem to be belonging to Feku Party. You are telling as if Rohingyas are Super Power of Myanmar. People maintain some limits while lying at least.

    UN has termed Rohingya killings as text book example of Ethnic Cleansing. Shame on humanity if some one plays politics for innocent killings.

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  • Rajesh, Udupi

    Mon, Sep 25 2017

    On one side, you say --> Shame on humanity if some one plays politics for innocent killings.
    on the other hand you deny that ROhngyas have killed any innnocents..

    Wonderful man..one has to take lesson from you on humanity and esp double standards.. shame!

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  • Rajesh, Udupi

    Mon, Sep 25 2017

    Defending tbe bloodsucer rohingas on one side, preaching humanity on the other?

    What a shame man

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Mon, Sep 25 2017

    He is a Fake Name ...

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  • Beowulf, Mangalore

    Mon, Sep 25 2017

    Nawaz,

    I dont remember you saying anything when Yazidi Christians were slaughtered and young girls and women were taken as sex slaves..

    Where was humanity then???

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Mon, Sep 25 2017

    Why only Hindus ...

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  • Rajesh, Udupi

    Mon, Sep 25 2017

    Because small army of barma can protect only few.... they are protecting buddists from rogue rohingyas.. hindus have no one to look up to.. only god... sad

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