Myanmar security forces kill over 100 protesters in 'horrifying' day of bloodshed

REUTERS
Reuters Staff
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
MARCH 27, 2021

(Reuters) -Myanmar security forces killed 114 people, including some children, in a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters on Saturday, the bloodiest day of violence since last month’s military coup, news reports and witnesses said.

 

The killings, which took place on Armed Forces Day, drew strong renewed criticism from Western countries. British Ambassador Dan Chugg said the security forces had “disgraced themselves” and the U.S. envoy called the violence horrifying.

Military jets also launched air strikes on a village in territory controlled by an armed group from the Karen ethnic minority and at least two people were killed, a civil society group said.

Chinese factory management rebukes rumors alleging its collusion with Myanmar's military to kill local workers

Global Times

By Li Sikun
Published: Mar 19, 2021

Cars are burned down at a China-invested factory in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo: Interviewee

Ever since Chinese factories in Myanmar were looted and set on fire over the weekend, more and more outrageous rumors have been infested on Myanmar's social media.

A rumor that the Chinese-owned Xing Jia Shoe Factory, located in Hlaing Thar Yar, Yangon, cooperated with Myanmar's military to trap and kill local workers, resulting in at least five deaths and many arrests, has been widely circulating on Twitter and Facebook since Wednesday.

Black Sunday in Myanmar: Dozens Killed as Martial Law Declared

THE I DIPLOMAT

By Sebastian Strangio
March 15, 2021

The day saw at least 39 people killed by security forces, as Chinese-financed factories came under attack.

Anti-Coup protesters carry an injured man following clashes with security forces in Yangon, Myanmar. Match 14 2021, Credit AP Photo

Myanmar’s ruling junta has declared martial law in parts of the country’s largest city as crackdowns by security forces began to take the contours of an internal counterinsurgency war. At least 39 people were killed by police and soldiers in Myanmar on Sunday, a harrowing crescendo to the six weeks of protests that have followed the military’s seizure of power on February 1.

According to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, a local civil society group, the death toll included at least 22 anti-coup protesters killed in the working class suburb of Hlaingthaya, in the northern suburbs of Yangon, as Chinese-owned businesses in the area were set on fire. At least 16 people were killed elsewhere in the country, including one policeman. The real death toll from the day could well be much higher, with Radio Free Asia reporting as many as 70 deaths from the day’s crackdown, including 51 in Hlaingthaya.

At least 12 killed in Myanmar anti-coup protests

New York Post

By Reuters
March 13, 2021 

An anti military coup protester throw a Molotov cocktail on the other side of the makeshift barricade during a demonstration against the military coup in Myanmar.Aung Kyaw Htet/SOPA Images/Shutterstock

Myanmar security forces killed at least 12 people, witnesses and media reported, as the acting leader of a civilian parallel government vowed in a first public address on Saturday to pursue a “revolution” to overturn the Feb. 1 military coup.

Five people were shot dead and several injured when police opened fire on a sit-in protest in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-biggest city, witnesses told Reuters.

Another person was killed in the central town of Pyay and two died in police firing in the commercial capital Yangon, where three were also killed overnight, domestic media reported.

Woman killed, eight others injured in Minbya artillery explosion

Narinjara News,
11 January 2021 

 A 40-year-old woman was killed and eight other persons were injured in an artillery explosion at Spar Htar village under Minbya township of Rakhine State.

The village administrator confirmed that the incident took place yesterday afternoon where Daw Hla Than Nwe lost her life.

“Hla Than Nwe died on the spot. Out of the eight injured individuals, five were taken to Mrauk-U hospital with serious wounds. Others were sent to Myaungbwe station hospital. Some children also sustained injuries in the explosion,” added the village administrator.

The artillery shell was picked up by a villager from inside the forest and it got exploded when he hammered on it. Many villagers were looking at him during the incident. The shell exploded at around 1:35 pm.

Rohingya teen killed in landmine explosion

The Daily Star 

 Sanjoy Kumar Barua
October 25, 2020

A Rohingya teenage boy was killed in a landmine explosion on the Myanmar side of the border along Bandarban on Friday afternoon, said police.

The dead is Mohammad Jaber, 13, of Kutupalong Lambashia Rohingya camp, said Alamgir Hossain, officer-in-charge of Naikhyangchhari Police Station.

Jaber died near pillar number 40 at Ghumdum in Bandarban's Naikhongchhari upazila when he was returning along with a few others from Myanmar to Kutupalong camp on Friday afternoon, said the OC.

Two Former Myanmar Soldiers Say They Helped Kill Up to 180 Rohingya People

VICE 

by Joe Freeman
08 September 2020 

This is the first time former members of Myanmar's military have admitted mass atrocities against Rohingya and is seen as a "huge development" in human rights cases filed against the country's top generals.

Smoke billows above what is believed to be a burning village in Myanmar's Rakhine state as members of the Rohingya Muslim minority take shelter in a no-man's land between Bangladesh and Myanmar in Ukhia on Sept. 4, 2017. Photo: K.M. ASAD / AFP

Two former soldiers from Myanmar admitted to taking part in the killing of up to 180 Rohingya men, women and children during a crackdown on the Muslim minority in 2017, a prominent rights group said Tuesday, September 8, releasing explosive testimony that is unprecedented as it comes from onetime members of the deeply secretive military.

In video testimony obtained by NGO Fortify Rights, Private Myo Win Tun said he executed people during operations that started in August 2017 in northern Rakhine state and that one of his commanders ordered soldiers to “exterminate all kalar,” a derogatory reference to Muslims in Myanmar. He also admitted to rape.

“The Muslim men were shot on their foreheads and kicked into the grave,” he said, according to the transcript translation, which was also reported in the New York Times.

2 Rohingyas killed in clash over establishing supremacy

Dhaka Tribune

Abdul Aziz, Cox’s Bazar
October 4th, 2020

File photo of Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune

The deceased has been identified as Imam Sharif, 30, and Shamsul Alam, 28

Two Rohingyas were killed and 10 others of the community were injured in sporadic clashes at Kutupalong Rohingya camp in the early hours of Sunday in Cox's Bazar's.

Bomb kills Rohingya boy in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine

AA

Kyaw Ye Lynn

YANGON, Myanmar

06.03.2020
Boy was 12 years old, blasts in 2 Muslim villages, says police official 

A Rohingya Muslim boy was killed and five others injured in a series of bombings in Myanmar's conflict-hit Rakhine state, according to officials on Friday.

"We received reports of blasts in two Muslim villages today," said a local police officer on condition of anonymity as he was not the authorized spokesperson.

The slain boy is 12 years old, he added.

'Myanmar army's clash with insurgents kills 5 Rohingyas'

Prothum Alo------   

Reuters

Yangon, Myanmar
1 March 2020,  

Myanmar police officer poses for a photograph in Maungdaw, Rakhine 9 July, 2019. Photo: Reuters 

At least five ethnic Rohingya were killed, including a child, and several injured after troops clashed with insurgents in Myanmar's conflict-torn western state of Rakhine, a lawmaker and two residents said on Sunday. 

Saturday's fighting broke out after Arakan Army rebels attacked a military convoy passing the historic temple town of Mrauk U, the regional MP, Tun Thar Sein, and a spokesman for the armed group, Khine Thu Kha, said.

Seven Rohingyas die in Teknaf 'gunfight'

THE ASIAN AGE

03 March 2020
AA News Desk 

Seven people, believed to be part of a Rohingya robbery gang, have died in alleged shootouts with RAB in Cox's Bazar's Teknaf.The incident took place in the hilly area adjacent to Mochni Rohingya camp in Hnila Union of Teknaf Upazila in the early hours of Monday, said RAB-15 Ramu Battalion Deputy Commander Major Md Rabiul Islam, reports bdnews24.com.He could not immediately identify the victims.

Bangladesh Police Kills Seven Suspected Rohingya Robbers In Raid

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At Least 50 Rohingya People Have Been Killed In Shootouts In Bangladesh Since The Latest Mass Influx Of Rohingya Refugees In August 2017, According To Police.

Police in Bangladesh killed seven members of a gang of armed robbers on Monday during a raid on their hideout on a hillside overlooking a camp for Rohingya refugees in the southeast of the country, a police spokesman said. Crime and violence are on the rise in the squalid, sprawling camps around the coastal city of Cox's Bazar, where hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya took shelter in recent years after fleeing persecution in neighbouring Myanmar.

Myanmar army clash with insurgents kills five Rohingya, including a child

NEW

STRAITSTIMES

By Reuters -
March 1, 2020

At least five ethnic Rohingya were killed, including a child, and several injured after troops clashed. -NSTP Courtesy of PKRM 

YANGON: At least five ethnic Rohingya were killed, including a child, and several injured after troops clashed with insurgents in Myanmar’s conflict-torn western state of Rakhine, a lawmaker and two residents said.

Saturday’s fighting broke out after Arakan Army rebels attacked a military convoy passing the historic temple town of Mrauk U, the regional MP, Tun Thar Sein, and a spokesman for the armed group, Khine Thu Kha, said.

Two military spokesmen did not answer telephone calls from Reuters to seek comment, and the army did not immediately issue a statement on its website.

3 Rohingya Muslims killed in Myanmar shelling

AA

Kyaw Ye Lynn 

YANGON, Myanmar

29.02.2020 

Artillery shells land in Rohingya villages in western Rakhine state, official says 

At least three Rohingya Muslims were killed and at least 10 other villagers injured after an artillery shell hit a village in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state on Saturday, an official said.

The incident happened in two Rohingya villages in Mrauk-U township on Saturday shortly after Arakan Army -- a predominantly Buddhist ethnic group -- attacked a military convoy carrying out the regular patrol in the area.

Myanmar Army Says it Will Try Soldiers Over Killings of Rohingya Civilians

RADIO FREE ASIA
2020-02-21

Members of the Myanmar military honor guard take part in a ceremony marking the 73rd National Union Day in Myanmar's commercial capital Yangon, Feb. 12, 2020.
AFP

The Myanmar military announced Friday that it would investigate and open court-martial proceedings against soldiers accused of killing Rohingya Muslim civilians during a violent army-led crackdown in the country’s Rakhine state in 2017, the third such case in a country facing international criticism for failing to hold troops accountable for widespread atrocities.

Rohingya Boy Killed as Village Hit by Artillery Shells in Western Myanmar

The Irrawaddy
By Min Aung Khine
11 February 2020

SITTWE, Rakhine State—A Rohingya teenager was killed and four others were injured when several shells hit villages in Rakhine State’s Kyauktaw Township, local residents said, as heavy fighting between the Myanmar military (or Tatmadaw) and the Arakan Army (AA) continued in the area.

Artillery shells struck Taungbwe Village at around 4 a.m. on Monday, killing a 15-year-old boy and wounding two teenagers, Kalu, a relative of the boy who was killed, told The Irrawaddy.

 

Blast Kills Four Rohingya Children, Injures Six Others in Myanmar’s Rakhine State

Radio Free Asia
2020-01-07

Rohingya men carry a child injured in an explosion on a hill near Htikehtoopauk village, Buthidaung township, in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state, Jan. 7, 2020.
Photo courtesy of a citizen journalist

Four Rohingya children were killed and six other people injured in an explosion Tuesday in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state, villagers said, though it is unclear whether the blast was caused by a landmine or shelling by the government military or the rebel Arakan Army, which have been engaged in hostilities since late 2018.

Muslim Villager Shot Dead by Army While Going Fishing in Rakhine, Locals Say

The Irrawaddy
By Min Aung Khine
9 October 2019

A signpost marking Buthidaung Township / Min Aung Khine / The Irrawaddy 

SITTWE, Rakhine State—A Muslim villager was shot dead by the Myanmar military in Rakhine State’s Buthidaung Township at around 9 a.m. on Tuesday morning, according to local villagers.

2 Rohingyas among 3 killed in Teknaf, Kushtia 'gunfights'

Dhaka Tribune
Abdul Aziz, Cox's Bazar, 
Al Mamun Sagor, Kushtia
September 13th, 2019

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The incidents also left seven policemen injured

Three people, including two Rohingyas, have been killed in reported gunfights in Cox's Bazar and Kushtia districts.

The incidents happened early Friday.

In Cox's Bazar, two Rohingya men, suspected of being involved in the murder of Jubo League leader Omar Faruk, were killed in a reported gunfight with police in Teknaf upazila.

The deceased were identified as Abul Karim, 24, and Nesar Ahmed alias Nesar Dacoit, 29, of Nayapara Rohingya camp.

Pradip Kumar Das, officer-in-charge of Teknaf police station said: "Acting on a tip-off, we conducted a drive at Jadimura Hill area around midnight.

3 police officers killed within 2 weeks in northern Arakan

Narinjara News
1 September 2019

At least three police officers were killed in northern part of Arakan in Myanmar since 19 August last.
The latest one is reported from Ponna Kyunt township, 20 miles north of Arakanese capital city of Sittwe this morning.

An officer from Yota Yoke police station was stabbed to death by miscreants.

The victim police officer Zaw Min Htay was targeted at around 7 am when he was walking near the Yota Yoke market adjacent to the police station.