Myanmar’s army has sentenced seven soldiers to 10 years hard labor for the killing of 10 Rohingya people during last year’s military crackdown. The International Criminal Court is seeking jurisdiction over deportations.
Seven Myanmar soldiers were sentenced on Tuesday to 10 years hard labor at a “prison in a remote area” after being found guilty of the extrajudicial killings of 10 Rohingya Muslim men.
According to a statement by a Myanmar military chief, the seven soldiers, among them four officers, were sentenced under section 71 of the country’s military act as the Rohingya victims “were not arrested and punished according to procedures.”
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Myanmar’s government admitted in January that troops, along with Buddhist villagers in Rakhine State, killed 10 Rohingya Muslim men in the village of Inn Dinn back in September.
The incident came as part of the Myanmar military’s brutal crackdown against the country’s Muslim minority, which sent almost 700,000 Rohingya people fleeing across the border into neighboring Bangladesh.
Rights groups, however, maintain that the 10 deaths are just the tip of the iceberg of alleged murders, rapes and arson attacks carried out by Myanmar security forces. The UN has labelled the crackdown on the Rohingya as “ethnic cleansing.” However, the Inn Dinn incident is the only atrocity the military has admitted so far.
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