Myanmar: UN report details Rohingya Muslim babies, children 'being slaughtered with knives' under Suu Kyi watch

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Eight-month-old baby among children stabbed to death in their own homes during so-called ‘area clearance operations’ by Burmese security services, according to ‘alarming’ UN report

Times of Ahmad | News Watch | US Desk
Source/Credit: The Independent UK
Compiled By AT/TOA | February 3, 2017

'18,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled in less than one week'

Babies and children have been slaughtered with knives during military campaigns on Rohingya Muslims in Burma, according to a series of accounts that were reported in a disturbing UN report released earlier this year.

Aung San Suu Kyi administration has refused cooperation with UN investigators and blocked the world’s media access to a state where many believe organized genocide is taking place.

According to the UN report, in one case, an eight-month-old, a five-year-old and a six-year-old were all reportedly stabbed to death in their own homes during so-called “area clearance operations” by Burmese security services, which are reported to have killed hundreds of people since the last year, in a Rohingya-dominated area in northwest Rakhine State.

In another instance, the chilling accounts, described by the UN as “revolting”, are outlined in a flash report from the United Nations Human Rights office. The report, which has been released early because of its alarming nature, is based on interviews with more than 200 Rohingya refugees who have recently entered Bangladesh after fleeing from violence they faced in Rakhine.

One mother recounted, according to the report, how her five-year-old daughter was trying to protect her from rape when a man “took out a long knife and killed her by slitting her throat”, while in another case an eight-month-old baby was reportedly killed while his mother was gang-raped by five security officers.

A 14-year-old girl also told of how, after being raped by soldiers, she saw her mother beaten to death and her two sisters, aged eight and 10, killed with knives.

However, the Aung San Suu Kyi government has accused the women of fabricating stories of sexual violence.

In recent days many Rohingya Muslim villages have been 'burned by Burmese army' and the satellite photos show widespread burning in 10 areas, the Independent has reported.

Further, according to The Independent, the government, in its official statements, and the critics, in posts on social media said there was widespread burning of buildings and even whole neighbourhoods in Maungdaw township in northern Rakhine.

Reportedly, 18,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled in less than one week after the military launched a brutal crackdown in response to an attack by militants on border posts.

Making a case for Burmees leader's incapabilities, columnist Basit Mahmood wrote the following in The Independent today:

[...] Suu Kyi has continuously accused the UN and other human rights groups of exaggerating the plight of the Rohingya in spite of all the testimonies of refugees, dead bodies and first-hand accounts of reporters.

It was Suu Kyi’s decision to accuse the Rohingya who have suffered mass persecution of exaggerating, just like it was her active decision to discredit the crimes suffered by the Rohingya people when their testimonies have been put to her. 

Suu Kyi is not only incapable of helping to resolve the conflict due to her desire to appear neutral and not rock the boat with the military, she has also undermined efforts aimed at preventing conflict.

The government refuses to recognise Rohingya as a legitimate native ethnic minority and most Rohingya are denied citizenship and its rights, The independent reported.


-- Compiled from The independent reports.

-- Burma: UN Report Details Rohingya Muslim babies and children 'being slaughtered with knives'


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