RFA
By Carlos G. Hamann, special for RFA
2023.06.13
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Roshida Begum, 22, shows where the Myanmar military slit her throat, Dec. 1, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. “The military took me and 5 other women into a house and raped us. After they were done, they slit our necks with machetes. They thought I was dead and they left and set the house on fire. I was the only one who escaped." She fled from Tula Toli village in Myanmar to Bangladesh shortly after the Aug. 25, 2017, attack. Credit: Allison Joyce/Getty Image
Women gang raped, children stabbed and killed, men shot and burned to death.
The criminal complaint of genocide by Myanmar’s armed forces against the Muslim Rohingya minority includes detailed accounts of stomach-churning atrocities.
The criminal complaint of genocide by Myanmar’s armed forces against the Muslim Rohingya minority includes detailed accounts of stomach-churning atrocities.