AMNESTY LINKS ARMY CHIEF WITH ETHNIC CLEANSING
on a nine-month investigation involving more than 400 interviews, satellite images, photos and videos.
“The explosion of violence — including murder, rape, torture, burning and forced starvation — perpetrated by Myanmar’s security forces in villages across northern Rakhine State was not the action of rogue soldiers or units,” said Amnesty senior crisis adviser, Matthew Wells. “There is a mountain of evidence that this was part of a highly orchestrated, systematic attack on the Rohingya population.”
He wants the situation to be referred to the International Criminal Court in the Hague for investigation and potential prosecution.
The Myanmar army has denied charges of ethnic cleansing although a handful of soldiers have been convicted for their roles in some of the worst atrocities.
Myanmar’s army chief should face justice for his alleged involvement in atrocities targeting the Rohingya minority population, according to Amnesty International.
The human rights group has linked Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing (pictured below, at right) to a campaign of “ethnic cleansing” that forced more than 700,000 Muslims to flee to Bangladesh last year.
Amnesty International has also accused 13 highlevel military officials of playing a key role in the murder, rape and deportation of Rohingya in a report based