Myanmar’s government kill All Muslims in Rakhine
The U.N. advisor on genocide prevention says all information he has received indicates Myanmar ’s government intended to get rid of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state and possibly even destroy them. KILL ALL, BURN ALL: THE JAPANESE WAR TACTIC USED ON THE ROHINGYA BY MYANMAR’S MILITARY I f only “restraint” were part of the Myanmar military lexicon, the violence faced by innocent Rohingya Muslims would be nowhere near the carnage seen each time militant attacks flare up in the troubled Rakhine region, observers say. The current crisis – the second major outbreak of violence in the northwestern province in the last year – was sparked after armed Rohingya insurgents took part in an August offensive targeting dozens of police posts and an army base in the northwestern region. Some 400 people have since been killed, and an estimated 150,000 have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh as a result of what is seen as a scorched earth counteroffensive by the military, known locally