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The Rohingya genocide is a series of ongoing persecutions and killings of the Muslim Rohingya people by the military of Myanmar.The genocide has consisted of two phases [3] [4] to date: the first was a military crackdown that occurred from October 2016 to January 2017, and the second has been occurring since August 2017. [5]
Two days later, on 23 October, over 80 people were killed by an airstrike in Hpakant Township, Northern Myanmar, during an anniversary celebration for the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO). At least 80 civilians were killed, making it the single deadliest attack on civilians since the start of the renewed civil war. [209]
The Rohingya conflict is an ongoing conflict in the northern part of Rakhine State, Myanmar (formerly known as Arakan, Burma), [37] characterised by sectarian violence between the Rohingya Muslim and Rakhine Buddhist communities, a military crackdown on Rohingya civilians by Myanmar's security forces, [38] [39] [40] and militant attacks by Rohingya insurgents in Buthidaung, Maungdaw, and ...
Meanwhile, Myanmar's presidential spokesman, Zaw Htay said that per latest reports from military commanders, fewer than 100 people had been killed. [87] The government of Myanmar denied that there was a systematic campaign of rape, though acknowledges it may have been committed by "individual members of the security forces". [31]
An airstrike by Myanmar’s army on a village under the control of an armed ethnic minority group killed about 40 people and injured at least 20 others, officials of the group and a local charity ...
A drone attack on Rohingya fleeing Myanmar killed many dozens of people, including families with children, several witnesses said, describing survivors wandering between piles of bodies to ...
Authorities in Myanmar claimed that around 350 people were killed, [31] [32] while opposition groups claimed thousands died in the protests at the hands of the military. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] [ 35 ] According to The Economist , over 3,000 people were killed in the demonstrations. [ 36 ]
Unverified reports put the death toll at about 200 people, which, if confirmed, would be one of the deadliest attacks against civilians in Myanmar’s three-year civil war, a conflict that broke ...