Boats Carrying Rohingya Fleeing Myanmar Sink, Killing 46
The fighting last week began just over a day after a panel created by Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi and headed by Kofi Annan, the former United Nations secretary general, issued a report saying
that Myanmar need to grant basic freedoms to the Rohingya or risk more "violence and radicalization." In February, a United Nations report said a wide-ranging anti-insurgency campaign in Rakhine state had led to the killings of hundreds of men, women and children by the military and police.
Following those attacks, Myanmar security forces and armed local residents carried out a campaign of mass violence against Rohingya
that killed more than 200 people in Chut Pyin, a village in Rakhine State, according to Fortify Rights, a human rights group that focuses on Southeast Asia.
Human Rights Watch, which documented the fires from satellite photos, said it was impossible to tell the causes remotely, but said the information "bears a close resemblance to
that found during widespread arson attacks in Rakhine State during violence against the Rohingya in 2012 and 2016." In 2012, 10 Rohingya men were killed after three Rohingya were accused of raping and murdering a Buddhist woman.
Many Rohingya have been blocked at the border by Bangladeshi guards, according to the United Nations’ human rights
agency, which called on Bangladesh to allow people fleeing violence to cross freely into the country from Myanmar.
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HONG KONG — At least 46 people believed to be Rohingya fleeing violence in western Myanmar have been found
dead on the banks of a river along the boundary with Bangladesh, Bangladeshi officials said on Friday.
Last week a Rohingya militant group attacked police posts
and a military base in Rakhine State in western Myanmar, near the country’s border with Bangladesh.