This report was produced through the support of Gwangju Human Rights Peace Foundation and The Truth Foundation.
On August 28, 2017, security forces from the Myanmar military, Border Guard Police (BGP), police, and Rakhine civilians attacked the village of Kawar Bil (Kyi Gan Pyin), located in Maungdaw, Rakhine State. The 200-300 assailants besieged Kawar Bil between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m., in three groups from their deployment stations at BGP headquarters, Thanakyut (law enforcement headquarters), the school, and Rakhine villages. They killed and injured Rohingya villagers with indiscriminate gunfire and with shooting bombs thrown from helicopters flying overhead. Security forces unlawfully arrested Rohingya villagers, burned down Rohingya homes, and looted Rohingya property. In the terror after such mass-scale violence and killing, Kawar Bil villagers escaped to Bangladesh, where they now live in temporary tents inside precarious refugee camps.
Asian Dignity Initiative carried out in-depth interviews with selected victim-survivors living in refugee camps in Bangladesh. The purpose of this report is to advance truth-seeking in order to support and aid the Rohingya victims of mass-scale violence, as well as to promote and actualize transitional justice. In addition, a criminal trial to hold perpetrators responsible for their horrific actions will ultimately require the submission of relevant evidence to the authorities.
In this report, Asian Dignity Initiative sought to explain how the Rohingya suffered from systematic destruction between 2012-2016, as well as to demonstrate that the massacres and arson committed on August 28, 2017 and in October 2016 in the village of Kawar Bil followed the pattern of genocide and ethnic cleansing. Therefore, our view is that the international community needs to actively intervene and take steps to address the situation.
This report was produced through the support of Gwangju Human Rights Peace Foundation and The Truth Foundation.
On August 28, 2017, security forces from the Myanmar military, Border Guard Police (BGP), police, and Rakhine civilians attacked the village of Kawar Bil (Kyi Gan Pyin), located in Maungdaw, Rakhine State. The 200-300 assailants besieged Kawar Bil between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m., in three groups from their deployment stations at BGP headquarters, Thanakyut (law enforcement headquarters), the school, and Rakhine villages. They killed and injured Rohingya villagers with indiscriminate gunfire and with shooting bombs thrown from helicopters flying overhead. Security forces unlawfully arrested Rohingya villagers, burned down Rohingya homes, and looted Rohingya property. In the terror after such mass-scale violence and killing, Kawar Bil villagers escaped to Bangladesh, where they now live in temporary tents inside precarious refugee camps.
Asian Dignity Initiative carried out in-depth interviews with selected victim-survivors living in refugee camps in Bangladesh. The purpose of this report is to advance truth-seeking in order to support and aid the Rohingya victims of mass-scale violence, as well as to promote and actualize transitional justice. In addition, a criminal trial to hold perpetrators responsible for their horrific actions will ultimately require the submission of relevant evidence to the authorities.
In this report, Asian Dignity Initiative sought to explain how the Rohingya suffered from systematic destruction between 2012-2016, as well as to demonstrate that the massacres and arson committed on August 28, 2017 and in October 2016 in the village of Kawar Bil followed the pattern of genocide and ethnic cleansing. Therefore, our view is that the international community needs to actively intervene and take steps to address the situation.