Myanmar deserters confirm atrocities against Rohingya

BANGKOK – Two soldiers who left the Myanmar army testified on video that have been taught by masters, “shoot everything you see and hear” in villages where Rohingya Muslim minority Tuesday survived, said a working group on human rights . These comments are the first public acknowledgment of the soldiers participating in the Army directed massacres, rapes and other crimes against the Rohingya in the Buddhist majority in his country, and the group Fortify Rights suggested it could provide important information about an ongoing investigation by the international criminal Court, more than 700,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar to escape to neighboring Bangladesh in August 2017 he called a game of Myanmar’s military campaign after an attack by a group of insurgents Rohingyas in Rakhine state. The Myanmar government has denied allegations that the security forces of mass rapes and killings and burned thousands of homes. Fortify Rights, which focuses on Myanmar, the two armies soldiers said the country last month have fled and are in the custody of the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands to be believe that controlling violence against the Rohingya. According to fortify rights, private Myo Win Tun, 33, and Zaw Naing Tun, 30, who served in the light infantry battalions separate service were “the names and ranks of the 19 authors direct the army of Myanmar, including himself , and six commanders … have ordered the right of atrocities against Rohingya or contributed. “the videos were shot in July, while the soldiers were in the care of Arakan army, a group of ethnic warfare in Rakhine in an armed conflict with the government concerned, content and translations in English subtitled, the group human rights said. They were published on Fortify Rights page on a video sharing site where the Associated Press they saw. The AP was able to corroborate independently soldiers accounts or whether they made their statements under duress. However atrocities, UN agencies and human rights organizations have documented extensively against the security forces of Myanmar Rohingyas performed. The International Court has agreed to consider a case, according to the Myanmar genocide committed against the group last year. The proceedings of the court is likely to continue for years. Myanmar has long Rohingya Muslims considered illegal migration from Bangladesh, even if their families have lived in Myanmar for generations. Almost all since 1982 citizenship status denied, effectively making them stateless. They have freedom of movement and other fundamental rights also denied. In separate video, the two men were in military uniform with a sheet for the background sits rigid referred to as off-screen male voice asked them questions. The information in question, as well as ready-made answers to events that occurred about three years ago, has clarified the content was prepared, unless proved. However, violent men acting the great number of accounts of atrocities collected by UN investigators and independent activists for human rights of the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh echoed described. answer questions about his name, serial number and military units, Myo Win Tun, said the commander of the 15th Military Operations Center, who has called the colonel as Htike an order to “everything you see and all you hear shooting, “was, as Muslim raids villages. He said that in one operation, killed them and buried 30 people. “Eight women, seven children and 15 men and the elderly” He said that Col appointed Htike his unit “exterminate all Kalar” – a derogatory term for the Rohingya – and they shot the men in their faces and kicked his body into a hole. They raped women before killing them, and admitted carrying out a rape. He said that his unit has acquired mobile phones and laptops, and livestock seized, a claim that has been widely reported. Staring said directly into the camera with almost any perceptible movement, Zaw Naing Tun as its unity “blown away” 20 Rohingya villages. The soldier said that about 80 people all were killed, including children, adults and seniors of both sexes. The murders were sanctioned by his battalion commander, Lt. Col. Myo Myint Aung said. In an accident, 10 inhabitants of the town Arakan Rohingya Salvation suspected group of Rohingya insurgents were captured and bound, and then fired under the command of a captain, said, the realization that it was one of the shooters. Zaw Naing Tun said he was present, raped by a sergeant and a corporal during search houses three Rohingya women, but he claims no rapes performed. He confirmed participation in looting and said his unit said an official, “What do you take what you get” before a raid on a market. “We entered the market, destroyed locks and doors, and then we have the money, gold, clothes, food and mobile phones,” he said. Fortify Rights said, came the two deserters in Myanmar bordering Bangladesh in mid-August and asked the Bangladeshi authorities for protection. The Bangladesh officials then informed the ICC about their presence, and said he is no longer in Bangladesh, according to rights Fortify. Asked about the two soldiers Tuesday, the office of the ICC by the prosecution, he said, not to express an ongoing investigation, in a statement, adding that it would be “independent and impartial trial from a variety of sources to as for the alleged crimes of atrocities collect. “” These confessions of what we have long known, which is that the army of Myanmar is a well-functioning national army, with a specific and central command structure, “said the head of Fortify rights Matthew Smith in a statement. “Commanders control, direct and to their subordinates in everything they do. In this case, the commander ordered foot soldiers to commit acts of genocide and destroy Rohingya, and that’s exactly what they did.” Under the legal control responsibility doctrine of rank superior officers are responsible for atrocious from which to serve in their midst, intertwined. That the two men also described such atrocities in separate areas “operational consistency between the battalions may indicate coordination, and the intent to commit genocide,” said rights Fortify. He said the video confessions appear to be credible, because their content with other evidence previously agreed by the group and other investigators unearthed, such as the independent international fact-finding mission of the United Nations authorized to Myanmar. Fortify Rights demanded that the two former soldiers who are tempted by the ICC, and the judge has put in a witness protection program. “And ‘reasonable Myo Zaw Win Naing Tun Tun and may incorporate, guilty of the crimes to which they confessed in exchange for immer, future studies Insider-Zeugen’für. To keep this development clearly a perpetrators efforts would advance to justice for the heinous crimes against the Rohingya, “the group said. The UN International Court is the highest court. It settles disputes between nations and not individuals track. The International Criminal Court, those responsible for crimes to keep looking, no public indictments have in the investigation they were conducting. Both fields are in The Hague, in the Netherlands. ___ Associated Press writer Mike Corder in The Hague, Netherlands, contributed to this report.
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