Muslim Insurgents Killed 28 Hindu Women and Children, Myanmar Police Say Police said two mass graves have been discovered in conflict-torn Rakhine state
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YANGON, Myanmar—Myanmar police said two mass graves holding the bodies of 28 slain Hindu women and boys have been found in conflict-torn northern Rakhine state.
The government blames Muslim insurgents for the killings.
Myanmar Border Guard Police Maj. Zayar Nyein in Rakhine said Monday that the graves had been discovered Sunday and contain the bodies of 20 females and eight males. He said more bodies are believed to be buried.
The government’s Information Committee said on its Facebook page that the eight males were children, including six under 10 years old.
Police blame the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army insurgent group, known as ARSA. Security forces say the dead are among about 100 Hindus missing since the group attacked at least 30 police outposts Aug. 25.
There was no immediate way to independently verify the government’s assertions.
A government crackdown that followed the attacks has left more than 200 Rohingya Muslim villages burned and sent at least 420,000 Rohingya fleeing into Bangladesh. The government has said most of the hundreds of people killed in the crackdown were insurgents.
The 28 bodies were found in Yebawkya village of Maungdaw township, the Information Committee. It said a Hindu man who lived there and has since fled to Bangladesh told a local leader that ARSA insurgents took about 100 Hindus from the village and killed all of them except for eight women, who were forced to convert to Islam and taken to Bangladesh.
The committee said nearby residents searched and found two pits holding the bodies in the northwest part of the village.
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