Category: Myanmar

Myanmar: Scorched-earth campaign fuels ethnic cleansing of Rohingya from Rakhine State

Sep 15, 2017

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by

joanne

in Myanmar

Amnesty International Press Release September 14, 2017 Amnesty International can reveal new evidence pointing to a mass-scale scorched-earth campaign across northern Rakhine State, where Myanmar security forces and vigilante mobs are burning down entire Rohingya villages and shooting people at random as they try to flee. The organization’s analysis of active fire-detection data, satellite imagery,…