Shwe Maung, Former Myanmar MP
November 15, 2016

Myanmar Security Forces are enjoying to kill Rohingyas including children, rape women and torching and destruction Rohingya houses and villages after the " October 9" attacks to three border guard police outposts by unknown assailants in Maungdaw township of Rakhine state.

In the last three days, the security forces stepped up the so-called Clearance Operation to kill innocent and unarmed Rohingyas and torching of homes and villages.

The satellite images of HRW, released on November 13, 2016 are undeniable evidences. We have been receiving photographs and videos of victims of the Clearance Operations. Myanmar government is twisting and presenting to the international community through its state media and social media that Muslims are setting fire to their own houses to get international attention and aid. This is ridiculous and bogus. In fact, this is not a new method and/or excuse of Myanmar government to crackdown and annihilate Rohingyas from their own soil. Myanmar government has been exercising this method since 2012 violences in Rakhine state.

Now genocide against Rohingya is no more hidden. This is the best time for the international community to intervene and stop state crimes against humanity before it turns to a full-fledged genocide situation like Rwanda in 1994.

This is also the best time for Myanmar State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar Commander-In-Chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing to save Myanmar before it is legally branded as a State of Genocide in 21st Century according to international law.

Shwe Maung, Former Myanmar MP
President, AiPAD (Arakan Institute for Peace and Development) USA