MYANMAR GOVT TO ACT AGAINST THOSE BEHIND MUSLIM DEATHS

Action will be taken against 10 members of Myanmar’s security forces in connection with the killing of captured Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, a government spokesman said on Sunday, adding it was not related to a Reuters report on the incident.

Reuters on Friday published a report laying out events that led up to the killing of 10 Rohingya men in the northern Rakhine village of Inn Din who were buried in a mass grave after being hacked to death or shot by Buddhist neighbours and soldiers.

A Myanmar government spokesman, Zaw Htay, said that “action according to the law” would be taken against seven soldiers, three members of the police force and six villagers as part of an army probe initiated before the Reuters report was published. The arrests were “not because of Reuters news.

The probe was being conducted even before Reuters news,” Zaw Htay said, adding he was unable to specify what action would be taken against the 16 people. On January 10, the military said the 10 Rohingya men belonged to a group of 200 “terrorists” who had attacked security forces. REUTERS