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08-04-2024, 12:42 PM
Myanmar's army massacred Rohingyas. Now it wants their help. Myanmar army killed thousands of Rohingyas and drove hundreds of thousands of them into neighbouring Bangladesh, early 7-yrs after Myanmar military killed thousands of Muslim Rohingyas, in what UN called "textbook ethnic cleansing", it wants their help.
Interviews with Rohingyas living in Rakhine State, BBC has learned of at least 100 conscripted in recent wks to fight for embattled junta. All names have been changed to protect them, frightened, but had to go," says Mohammed, a 31yr Rohingya man with 3-young children lives near capital of Rakhine, Sittwe, in the Baw Du Pha camp.
At least 150,000 internally displaced Rohingyas have been forced to live in IDP camps for the past decade. In the middle of February the camp leader came to him late at night, Mohammed said, and told him he would have to do military training. "These are army orders," he remembers him saying. "If you refuse they have threatened to harm your family."
BBC spoken to several Rohingyas have confirmed that army officers have been going around camps and ordering the younger men to report for military training. The terrible irony for men like Mohammed is Rohingyas in Myanmar are still denied citizenship, & subjected to a range of discriminatory restrictions - like a ban on travel outside their communities.
In 2012 tens of thousands of Rohingyas were driven out of mixed communities in Rakhine State, and forced to live in squalid camps. Five years later, in August 2017, 700,000 fled to neighbouring Bangladesh, after the army launched a brutal clearance operation against them, killing & raping thousands burning their villages. Some 600,000 still remain there.
Myanmar is now facing a genocide trial at the International Court of Justice in the Hague over its treatment of the Rohingyas.
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Interviews with Rohingyas living in Rakhine State, BBC has learned of at least 100 conscripted in recent wks to fight for embattled junta. All names have been changed to protect them, frightened, but had to go," says Mohammed, a 31yr Rohingya man with 3-young children lives near capital of Rakhine, Sittwe, in the Baw Du Pha camp.
At least 150,000 internally displaced Rohingyas have been forced to live in IDP camps for the past decade. In the middle of February the camp leader came to him late at night, Mohammed said, and told him he would have to do military training. "These are army orders," he remembers him saying. "If you refuse they have threatened to harm your family."
BBC spoken to several Rohingyas have confirmed that army officers have been going around camps and ordering the younger men to report for military training. The terrible irony for men like Mohammed is Rohingyas in Myanmar are still denied citizenship, & subjected to a range of discriminatory restrictions - like a ban on travel outside their communities.
In 2012 tens of thousands of Rohingyas were driven out of mixed communities in Rakhine State, and forced to live in squalid camps. Five years later, in August 2017, 700,000 fled to neighbouring Bangladesh, after the army launched a brutal clearance operation against them, killing & raping thousands burning their villages. Some 600,000 still remain there.
Myanmar is now facing a genocide trial at the International Court of Justice in the Hague over its treatment of the Rohingyas.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com...730994.amp
