| FOCUS | 'Kill All You See': In a First, Myanmar Soldiers Tell of Rohingya Slaughter |
| Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=56094"><span class="small">Hannah Beech, Saw Nang and Marlise Simons, The New York Times</span></a> |
| Tuesday, 08 September 2020 11:06 |
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Excerpt: "Video testimony from two soldiers supports widespread accusations that Myanmar's military tried to eradicate the ethnic minority in a genocidal campaign."
'Kill All You See': In a First, Myanmar Soldiers Tell of Rohingya Slaughter08 September 20
The August 2017 order from his commanding officer was clear, Pvt. Myo Win Tun said in video testimony. “Shoot all you see and all you hear.” He said he obeyed, taking part in the massacre of 30 Rohingya Muslims and burying them in a mass grave near a cell tower and a military base. |
| Last Updated on Tuesday, 08 September 2020 11:07 |
he two soldiers confess their crimes in a monotone, a few blinks of the eye their only betrayal of emotion: executions, mass burials, village obliterations and rape.