By Hannah Beech, Saw Nang and Marlise Simons
Sept. 8, 2020
Video testimony from two soldiers supports widespread accusations that Myanmar's milatray tried to eradicate the ethnic minority in genocidal campaign.
The remains of a Rohingya school in Rakhine State in western Myanmar last year.Credit...Adam Dean for The New York Times
The two soldiers confess their crimes in a monotone, a few blinks of the eye their only betrayal of emotion: executions, mass burials, village obliterations and rape.
The August 2017 order from his commanding officer was clear, Pvt. Myo Win Tun said in video testimony. “Shoot all you see and all you hear.”