Horrific stories are emerging of an atrocity in war-ravaged Myanmar, allegedly at the hands of a rebel army, which has denied responsibility.
Survivors of what appears to be a massacre of civilians in Myanmar have recounted seeing hundreds of people, including an unknowable number of children, slaughtered in indiscriminate drone attacks near the water border with Bangladesh.
Gruesome videos circulating on social media and purportedly filmed near Maungdaw in the aftermath of the strikes show dozens of mangled bodies of men, women and children on the estuarine mudflats. Another video shows masses of panicked people in the water and on land. Groups of Rohingya Muslims cross the Naf River at the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh, near Palong Khali, Bangladesh in 2017.Mohammed Hubaib, a 12-year-old from a different family, also estimated he saw the bodies of about 400 people, some of whom had drowned after their boats were attacked during the crossing. His grandfather, 70-year-old Mohammed Kasim, said he “witnessed the AA drone strikes kill more than 250 Rohingya in front of me, including children and women” before he passed out.
“We’re talking about gunshots, land mines, mortar shells,” deputy Bangladesh representative Anthony Caswell Perez said. Witnesses have said thousands more Rohingya had been attempting to get into Bangladesh from Maungdaw, but had been blocked on the water by junta vessels and on land by Bangladeshi authorities.
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