'Exterminate all': Myanmar army deserters tell of massacres and rapes in genocidal 2017 campaign against ethnic Rohingya Muslims
This photo was taken on the day the 10 Rohingya men were killed. Paramilitary police officer Aung Min, left, stands guard behind them. The picture of the September 1, 2017 massacre was obtained from a Buddhist village elder, and authenticated by witnesses.
It was not clear from the reports how the men fell into the hands of the Arakan Army, why they were speaking, or how they were transported to The Hague and under whose authority. He said in one operation, they killed and buried 30 people: "eight women, seven children, and 15 men and elderly."", a derogatory name for the Rohingya and that they shot the men in their foreheads and kicked their bodies into a hole. He said his unit appropriated mobile phones and laptops, and also seized cattle, an allegation that has been widely reported.
In one incident, 10 villagers suspected of belonging to the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, the Rohingya insurgent group, were captured and tied up, and then shot on the orders of a captain, he said, acknowledging that he was one of the shooters. "We entered into the market, destroyed locks and doors, and then we took money, gold, clothes, food and mobile phones," he said.Fortify Rights said the two deserters arrived at Myanmar’s border with Bangladesh in mid-August and asked Bangladesh authorities for protection.