Mass grave of 28 Hindus killed by Rohingyas found: Myanmar army - Times of India

http://ift.tt/2firSh1 Myanmar's army said today that a mass grave of 28 Hindus had been discovered in violence-wracked Rakhine state, blaming the killings on #Muslim Rohingya militants. The announcement could not be independently verified in an region that has been seized by communal violence since Rohingya militant raids on August 25 triggered a sweeping security crackdown. "Security members found and dug up 28 dead bodies of Hindus who were cruelly violently and killed by ARSA extremist Bengali terrorists in Rakhine State," a statement posted on the army chief's website said. The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) is the group whose attacks on police posts triggered an army backlash so brutal that the UN believes it amounts to ethnic cleansing of the Muslim minority. More than 430,000 #Rohingya have fled the region to Bangladesh in under a month. Some 30,000 #Hindus and #Buddhists based in the area have also been displaced, with some saying were terrorised by Rohingya militants. The army said that security officers found 20 dead women and eight men in the graves, including six boys under the age of ten.
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