Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day commemorated; 5.6 magnitude earthquake on Myanmar-India border

Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day commemorated 

The Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC-M), a group of three international human rights experts, released a statement ahead of the eighth commemoration of Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day on Aug. 25. On this date in 2017, the Burma Army carried out a “military clearance” operation that killed thousands of Rohingya civilians in northern Arakan State and forced over 700,000 others to seek safety in Bangladesh.

“The architects and perpetrators of the Rohingya genocide—the Myanmar  military—continue to act with total impunity,” said Marzuki Darusman, the former head of the U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar and one of the founding members of SAC-M. On Dec. 8, the Arakan Army (AA) took control of northern Arakan – and the entire Burma-Bangladesh border – when it seized Maungdaw Township.