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Myanmar government 'bulldozing Rohingya mass grave to hide evidence'
Source: The Guardian
Myanmar government 'bulldozing Rohingya mass grave to hide evidence'
Rights group says site of massacre in Rakhine state is being flattened on government orders after exposés of two other mass graves
Emanuel Stoakes
Mon 19 Feb 2018 14.10 GMT Last modified on Mon 19 Feb 2018 14.34 GMT
The government of Myanmar is bulldozing over the site of a Rohingya mass grave in an effort to destroy evidence of a massacre committed last year by the military, according to a rights monitoring group.
The claim follows investigations conducted by the Associated Press and Reuters news agencies, which revealed evidence of other mass graves.
The Arakan Project, which uses on-the-ground networks to document abuses against the Rohingya community in western Rakhine state, Myanmar, provided the Guardian with a video of the grave site before its destruction. The footage shows half-buried tarpaulin bags in a forest clearing, with a decaying leg visibly protruding from one of the bags.
Chris Lewa, director of the Arakan Project, said the bulldozing appears to be part of an effort to hide evidence of the grave permanently following the exposés that appeared in the press.
“Two of the mass graves sites we know about have appeared in the media, but on Thursday one of the other mass grave sites was bulldozed. This means that evidence of the killings is being destroyed,” she said.
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Rights group says site of massacre in Rakhine state is being flattened on government orders after exposés of two other mass graves
Emanuel Stoakes
Mon 19 Feb 2018 14.10 GMT Last modified on Mon 19 Feb 2018 14.34 GMT
The government of Myanmar is bulldozing over the site of a Rohingya mass grave in an effort to destroy evidence of a massacre committed last year by the military, according to a rights monitoring group.
The claim follows investigations conducted by the Associated Press and Reuters news agencies, which revealed evidence of other mass graves.
The Arakan Project, which uses on-the-ground networks to document abuses against the Rohingya community in western Rakhine state, Myanmar, provided the Guardian with a video of the grave site before its destruction. The footage shows half-buried tarpaulin bags in a forest clearing, with a decaying leg visibly protruding from one of the bags.
Chris Lewa, director of the Arakan Project, said the bulldozing appears to be part of an effort to hide evidence of the grave permanently following the exposés that appeared in the press.
“Two of the mass graves sites we know about have appeared in the media, but on Thursday one of the other mass grave sites was bulldozed. This means that evidence of the killings is being destroyed,” she said.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/feb/19/myanmar-government-bulldozing-rohingya-mass-grave-hide-evidence
