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September 15, 2017

Amnesty: Burma Behind "Scorched Earth" Campaign Against Rohingya
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In Burma, Amnesty International said Thursday it has evidence the
Burmese military has directed a massive scorched-earth campaign against
minority Muslim Rohingya, burning villages to the ground and shooting
people at random as they try to flee. Amnesty's report cited fire
detection data, satellite imagery, photographs and videos from the
ground. At the United Nations, officials said Thursday the number of
Rohingya who've fled to neighboring Bangladesh has reached 400,000,
warning as many as a million refugees could flee by year's end. This is
Rohingya activist Zaw Win Maung, speaking at a protest outside the
United Nations building in New York Thursday.

Zaw Win Maung: "The U.S. government needs to stand up, along with the
U.N. We want to have a tough resolution on this crisis. This crisis is
not the regular small community violence. This is a genocide."



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