10-Sq-mi Rohingya Area Razed; 600 Killed and 100K Displaced in Northern Buthidaung

By MYARF | RB News

September 2, 2017

Buthidaung -- Approximately 10 square-miles of Rohingya villages have been razed, about 600 villagers killed and over 100,000 internally displaced in northern Buthidaung alone till date.

The Myanmar military along with the Rakhine extremists have carried out large-scale arson attacks on multiples villages in the region, staged chilling summary executions of civilians and unfolded untold numbers of horrific atrocities since August 27.

Homes were looted; villages were burnt down; men ranging from age 10 to 90 were indiscriminately attacked, shot dead, beheaded, mutilated and after that, their bodies were systematically destroyed; women were molested and raped; and unimaginable and harrowing atrocities were committed.

Over 100,000 people internally displaced in northern Buthidaung are now ENTRAPPED and can flee to nowhere. They have been taking refuge in the mountains and nearby surviving villages to escape from being massacred. Without shelter and food for days now in this monsoon, there will be massive numbers of civilian deaths especially children unless humanitarian aids reach to them and their tragedies are addressed within a week.

The most villages in Buthidaung that have come under widespread and indiscriminate arson attacks -- by the Myanmar military after rebels from ARSA (Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army) attacked over 2 dozens of Police posts and few military bases across Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Rathedaung-- are located along the Mayu River in the northern part of the township. Some of the villages almost entirely burnt down where villagers were massacred and massive displacements occurred are:

The displaced people are unable to cross the mountains to make to Myanmar-Bangladesh Border as there are groups of Myanmar armed forces and armed Rakhine extremists waiting and hiding in the forest to ambush and kill them.

[Edited by M.S. Anwar]

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