Rohingya Terrorist Group Linked to Pakistan and Militant Islamic Organizations
Rohingya Terrorist Group Linked to Pakistan and Militant Islamic Organizations
Myanmar security forces patrol near the Myanmar-Bangladesh border in northern Rakhine State in 2017. / The Irrawaddy
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By Jayanta Kalita 15 July 2021
In May 2018, human rights organization Amnesty International brought to light a seemingly under-reported massacre of scores of Hindus and other ethnic minorities allegedly by armed Rohingya militants in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.
Amnesty published an investigative report based on interviews conducted in Myanmar and neighboring Bangladesh, as well as photographic evidence analyzed by forensic pathologists. The report said that Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) fighters “sowed fear among Hindus and other ethnic communities with these brutal attacks”.
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But what is the “four cuts”?
According to Naw Htoo Htoo of the Karen Human Rights Group, the Tatmadaw began using “four cuts” in the 1960s in an attempt to quell armed resistance in areas under the control of the Karen National Union (KNU), an ethnic armed organisation in Myanmar.
“They targeted every person and village which they thought would have ties with the KNU,” she said. “They fired indiscriminately at Karen villages, destroyed every food and aid item they thought was meant to support the KNU…restricted medical aid in conflict-affected areas, arrested people they suspected of providing aid and food, and arrested their family members…They also used widespread sexual violence and forcibly relocated entire communities.”