Tag: Rohingya villages

Nay Pyi Taw : The non-profit Human Rights Watch on Friday urged the Myanmar government to stop the demolition of villages abandoned by the Rohingya minority in Rakhine state from where almost 700,000 members of the community have fled to Bangladesh. HRW said satellite images revealed that the government has bulldozed dozens of Rohingya settlements and added that they should be preserved as "crime scenes" to investigate allegations of atrocities against the military, reports the BBC. "Many of these villages were scenes of atrocities against Rohingya and should be preserved so...