The US Documents Systematic Violence Against Myanmar Rohingyas

On Monday, September 24, 2018, US said it has found evidence of systematic violence by Myanmar's military against Rohingya mirity, which includes widespre killings and rape.

State Department of US released report just as US anunced USD 185 million in new funding for Rohingya refugees in Myanmar, during a meeting at United Nations.

State Department study, based on interviews in April 2018 with 1,024 Rohingya ults who have taken refuge in neighbouring Banglesh, provided accounts consistent with reports from human rights groups but kept largely to dispassionate descriptions of events.

report tably did t use terms gecide or ethnic cleansing to describe mass killings of Rohingya. Rohingyas are a group which consists of Muslim majority, y were previously concentrated in Rakhine State of Myanmar which was despised by Buddhist-majority of Myanmar. Myanmar Government did t give m citizenship rights. 

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report by State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research stated;

" survey reveals that recent violence in rrn Rakhine state was extreme, large-scale, widespre and seemingly geared toward both terrorizing population and driving out Rohingya residents".

" scope and scale of military's operations indicate y were well-planned and coordinated," report stated

"In some areas, perpetrators used tactics that resulted in mass casualties, for example, locking people in houses to burn m, fencing off entire vills before shooting into crowd or sinking boats full of hundreds of fleeing Rohingya."

report also stated that 82 percent of interviewed refugees personally witnessed killings, with 51 percent also reporting sexual violence.

State Department said witnesses hailing from multiple vills reported similar rapes, in which military men would force all women to leave ir homes.

"y would n choose a smaller number of women -- often four or five, but some refugees reported up to 20 -- whom as many as 15 soldiers would n take to fields, forests, houses, schools, mosques or latrines to gang rape," it said.

"Many victims were reportedly killed afterward, though t in all cases," it said, ding that soldiers in some cases would go door to door to find "prettiest girls" to gang-rape.

In an overwhelming 88 percent of cases, witnesses said military was behind atrocities. Few said y saw attacks against m by Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), Islamic militant group whose assaults on military posts in October 2016 triggered crackdown.

violence in Myanmar, formerly kwn as Burma, was unleashed soon after country transitioned to democracy, undermining what Western governments h hailed as a triumph of engment.

campaign against Rohingya has especially tarnished reputation of Aung San Suu Kyi, long-detained democracy vocate and bel laureate who has been reticent in dressing violence.

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More than 7,00,000 Rohingya took refuge in Banglesh, fearful of returning to Myanmar despite a repatriation deal between two countries.

Meanwhile, Britain hosted a meeting of about a dozen foreign ministers that was also attended by Myanmar's state counselor Kyaw Tint Swe and International Cooperation Minister Kyaw Tin, although Suu Kyi did t come to New York.

Fresh from a visit to Myanmar, British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt warned that military leers must answer for any atrocities committed against Rohingya, a foreign office spokesperson said.

"If, in a year's time, we have t me a meaningful difference to lives of million or more people affected, n we have failed as an international community," Hunt told closed meeting, according to spokesperson.

US Ambassor Nikki Haley anunced USD 185 million for food, water, health care and or critical aid to refugees, even as US dramatically scales back its mission of refugees.