Tenterfield Star :
Bangkok: A Myanmar court has sentenced a Rohingya Muslim man to death while no one has yet been held to account for more than 1000 documented atrocities, including the slaughter of babies, against other Rohingya in the country’s western Rakhine State.
Police accused Mamahdnu Aka Aula of leading an attack on a police post near the border with Bangladesh in October, one of several attacks which prompted a brutal response from Myanmar’s security forces which the United Nations says could amount to crimes against humanity.
Nine police officers were killed in the attacks which Myanmar authorities have claimed were backed by a Muslim extremist group based in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
The sentencing in a court in Rakhine’s capital Sittwe comes as intentional pressure grows for an independent investigation into a UN report that documents mass rapes, murders, forced disappearances, beatings and families locked in torched houses and burnt alive.
A baby’s throat was slit while he cried out for his mother’s milk while she was being gang raped and soldiers stomped on the stomach of a pregnant woman while she was in labour.
For months Myanmar’s government denied claims of atrocities by Rohingya who had fled the violence in Rakhine and arrived in squalid refugee camps in Bangladesh.
But after an international outcry over the UN report, including condemnation by Pope Francis, Myanmar’s government on Monday set up a team of five high-ranking police officers to investigate.
Bangkok: A Myanmar court has sentenced a Rohingya Muslim man to death while no one has yet been held to account for more than 1000 documented atrocities, including the slaughter of babies, against other Rohingya in the country’s western Rakhine State.
Police accused Mamahdnu Aka Aula of leading an attack on a police post near the border with Bangladesh in October, one of several attacks which prompted a brutal response from Myanmar’s security forces which the United Nations says could amount to crimes against humanity.
Nine police officers were killed in the attacks which Myanmar authorities have claimed were backed by a Muslim extremist group based in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
The sentencing in a court in Rakhine’s capital Sittwe comes as intentional pressure grows for an independent investigation into a UN report that documents mass rapes, murders, forced disappearances, beatings and families locked in torched houses and burnt alive.
A baby’s throat was slit while he cried out for his mother’s milk while she was being gang raped and soldiers stomped on the stomach of a pregnant woman while she was in labour.
For months Myanmar’s government denied claims of atrocities by Rohingya who had fled the violence in Rakhine and arrived in squalid refugee camps in Bangladesh.
But after an international outcry over the UN report, including condemnation by Pope Francis, Myanmar’s government on Monday set up a team of five high-ranking police officers to investigate.
