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Myanmar Army Deserters Confess on Video to Mass Murders

Dave Grunebaum

   KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - They show little to no emotion. Their answers
   may have been rehearsed, but what they say is explosive. Two former
   foot soldiers, now deserters, from Myanmar's army say in video-recorded
   confessions that they participated in atrocity crimes including mass
   murder and the destruction of entire villages under the orders of
   senior officers.

   "Shoot all you see and all you hear," one former soldier, Private Myo
   Win Tun, says in a video about the order from a colonel before members
   of his battalion killed 30 Rohingya Muslims and buried them in a mass
   grave.

   The other deserter, from a different battalion, Private Zaw Naing Tun,
   says that under the orders of a lieutenant colonel, he and other
   soldiers killed about 80 people, including children, as well as elderly
   men and women.

   The former soldiers provide details about some of the killings, and
   they also identify the battalions involved, naming senior officers,
   villages burned and the locations of mass graves they helped fill with
   their victims' bodies.

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