{"id":3318,"date":"2014-01-18T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T08:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3318"},"modified":"2014-01-18T08:40:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T08:40:00","slug":"burmese-forces-kill-rape-rohingya-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/01\/18\/3318\/","title":{"rendered":"Burmese Forces Kill, Rape Rohingya Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/burmese-Forces-Kill.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>Human rights activists have accused the Burmese police forces of killing at least 16 Rohingya Muslims and kidnapping 100 more in a village located in an isolated corner of Burma to cover-up a recent discovery of a mass grave.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe villagers were shocked because a worker had found the bodies of eight Rohingyas in a dump,\u201d Tun Khin, human rights activist and president of the Burmese Rohingya Organisation in the UK, told International Business Times UK on Thursday, January 16.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThey took one corpse in the village and went to the police outpost to discuss the matter with authorities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to news reports, Rakhine authorities entered Du Char Yar Tan village on the night of 14 January and started shooting people directly.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Khin alleges that security forces then raided the village &#8220;to hide this crime&#8221; &#8211; with reference to the killing of the eight Rohingyas.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to other rights groups, a Rohingya girl was raped in the rampage that followed.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The activist blames authorities for a &#8220;systematic pattern of violence&#8221; affecting Rohingyas in the Rakhine state.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;This is the policy they are implementing. They want to clear up Myanmar from Rohingyas.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Similar news was confirmed by Chris Lewa of the Arakan Project, an advocacy group that has been documenting abuses against members of the Rohinyga Muslim minority for more than a decade.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lewa confirmed to AP that Burmese mobs attacked Muslims in the village, located in an isolated corner of Burma, hacking Muslim women and children with knives.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Described by the UN as one of the world&#8217;s most persecuted minorities, Rohingya Muslims are facing a catalogue of discrimination in their homeland.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They have been denied citizenship rights since an amendment to the citizenship laws in 1982 and are treated as illegal immigrants in their own home.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Burmese government as well as the Buddhist majority refuse to recognize the term \u201cRohingya\u201d, referring to them as \u201cBengalis\u201d.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rights groups have accused the Burmese security forces of killing, raping and arresting Rohingyas following the sectarian violence last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span> <em><strong>OnIslam<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights activists have accused the Burmese police forces of killing at least 16 Rohingya Muslims and kidnapping 100 more in a village located in an isolated corner of Burma to cover-up a recent discovery of a mass grave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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