Friday, February 23, 2018

Myanmar bulldozes what is left of Rohingya Muslim villages

BANGKOK — First, their villages were burned to the ground. Now, Myanmar's government is using bulldozers to erase them from the earth — in a vast operation rights groups say is destroying crucial evidence of mass atrocities against the nation's ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority.
Satellite images of Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state, released to The Associated Press by Colorado-based DigitalGlobe on Friday, show that dozens of empty villages and hamlets have been leveled by authorities in recent weeks — far more than previously reported.

Source:  nbcnews

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