Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, uncovered a massacre of Rohingya civilians in the village of Inn Din, in northern Rakhine state, that undercut Myanmar’s denials that the army was complicit in the killings that began in August 2017. A United Nations official described the slaughter in Rakhine as “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing,” but verifying refugees’ harrowing accounts of the violence has been difficult because Myanmar has blocked nearly all independent access to the area.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 07, 2019 04:09 UTC