Myanmar army tries to discredit Rohingya abuse confessions

Digital Journal
By AFP
10th September2020

Myanmar's military has sought to undermine the confessions of two soldiers who said they were ordered to "exterminate" Rohingya Muslims before taking part in the massacre of scores of men, women and children.

NGO Fortify Rights and the New York Times on Tuesday released details of the filmed interviews -- seen by AFP -- of Private Myo Win Tun, 33, and Private Zaw Naing Tun, 30, in which they described "wiping out" entire villages.

Myanmar: New Al Jazeera documentary uncovers Rohingya abuse

Aljazeera
by Osama Bin Javaid

24 November 2019

As Myanmar goes on trial at the International Court of Justice over its crackdown on Muslim Rohingya, Al Jazeera sheds new light on some of its alleged crimes.

 
Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to defend her military against allegations of genocide at the International Court of Justice.
The army is accused of targeting the country's Rohingya Muslim minority in 2017.
A documentary being aired on Al Jazeera sheds new light on the abuses.
Al Jazeera's Osama Bin Javaid reports.
Warning, this report contains some disturbing images- -

Link:https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/myanmar-al-jazeera-documentary-uncovers-rohingya-abuse-191124100506089.html?fbclid=IwAR3VhiPC6-a04VZI5hG8CD8lrP7G3ekJJZ8WShZQQsBA6at77V4j0LINmYs

UN rights investigator slams Suu Kyi on Rohingya abuses

THE MALAYSIAN 

INSIGHT

03 Sep 2019

Aung San Suu Kyi at the Suzuki factory on the outskirt of Yangon, Myanmar, recently. Suu Kyi was spared from US sanctions over a campaign of 'ethnic cleansing' of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar. – EPA pic, September 3, 2019.

MYANMAR’S civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has washed her hands of the Rohingya crisis, a UN rights investigator said today ahead of a meeting between South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in and the tarnished democracy icon.

Yanghee Lee, a university professor in Seoul who is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights to Myanmar, said Suu Kyi was “terribly misguided and misinformed” about the abuses against the stateless Muslim minority in her country.

Link :https://www.themalaysianinsight.com/s/180731