Is Myanmar's army still killing people in Rakhine? (video)

Description: 

"The massacre of ethnic groups in Myanmar’s Rakhine state hasn’t ended, according to a new report by Amnesty International. Now the group wants the UN Security Council to refer the crimes to the International Criminal Court. The report claims that since January the Myanmar military has launched random attacks killing or wounding people. “The new operations in Rakhine State show an unrepentant, unreformed and unaccountable military terrorising civilians and committing widespread violations as a deliberate tactic,” says Nicholas Bequelin, regional director for East and Southeast Asia at Amnesty International. News of the killings comes just days after a report by Reuters found that the soldiers jailed for the slaughter of 10 Rohingya during a 2017 military crackdown had be set free. The military members served less than one year of a 10-year prison sentence..."

Creator/author: 

Nicholas Bequelin

Source/publisher: 

Al Jazeera

Date of Publication: 

2019-06-04

Date of entry: 

2019-06-04

Grouping: 

  • Individual Documents

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Countries: 

Myanmar

Language: 

English

Resource Type: 

Video (25:40 Minutes)