Emanuel Stoakes // Myanmar government 'bulldozing Rohingya mass grave to hide evidence' | Global development | The Guardian

20.2.18

Myanmar government 'bulldozing Rohingya mass grave to hide evidence' | Global development | The Guardian:

The claim follows investigations conducted by the Associated Press and Reuters news agencies, which revealed evidence of other mass graves.


The Arakan Project, which uses on-the-ground networks to document abuses against the Rohingya community in western Rakhine state, Myanmar, provided the Guardian with a video of the grave site before its destruction. The footage shows half-buried tarpaulin bags in a forest clearing, with a decaying leg visibly protruding from one of the bags.


Chris Lewa, director of the Arakan Project, said the bulldozing appears to be part of an effort to hide evidence of the grave permanently following the exposés that appeared in the press.


“Two of the mass graves sites we know about have appeared in the media, but on Thursday one of the other mass grave sites was bulldozed. This means that evidence of the killings is being destroyed,” she said.