Arakan News Agency
Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims have rejected Amnesty International’s accusations that the group killed dozens of Hindu civilians in August 2017.
The alleged killings came amid attacks by activists in Arakan state in western Myanmar on Aug. 25, 2016.
The attacks sparked a repressive military campaign that led to the flight of about 700,000 Rohingya Muslims across the border into Bangladesh, which the United Nations called “ethnic cleansing.”
An Amnesty International report on Wednesday reported that Rohingya men in western Myanmar killed dozens of Hindu civilians in August 2017.
Amnesty said, quoting interviews in Arakan state and with refugees in Bangladesh, that a Rohingya group armed with rifles and swords was responsible for the killing of some 99 Hindu men, women and children in two separate attacks.
