W. I didnt there was raining that day the river had flooded. Before last we couldnt cross the river with our babies and children and we were sitting on the riverbank and 100 soldiers came and surrounded us. For a. Beginner again is a layer. There and then when they started stabbing our men and shooting at them the same they shouted shop. They hit us the women good long sticks. In than a mile and. A lot of really. Very very professional soldiers carried me off along with 6 other women that id done the demilitarized or. That again one another and as they took us away my youngest brother said to me farewell my sister. In law i cant say all the terrible things they did to us. They were there that. The. Other. What happened was called a cleansing operation. In the summer of 2017 the myanmar army laid waste to the Western State of rakhine formerly hora contrabands. Nearly 500 villages were burned down. The row hinge a population fled to the forests and hills muslims one wanted in a mainly buddhist country. After days on foot the survivors reached the border. On the opposite bank bangladesh. To. Find out about this when we have enough time anymore the soldiers beat us. I lost my daughter she is a little bigger than this child here my father and my mother are missing when they set the village on fire i took my wife and the children who were there and ran away as fast as i could since then i dont know where my daughter is 400 mothers day. Therefore they got in the street and by the river i saw many dead bodies including children wherever we looked there were mutilated and burned bodies there because the no food idea and the level of it. The crackdown left thousands dead in rakhine the province where the range of people used to live. Most of them fled myanmar their own country. Bangladesh has taken 700000 refugees. The situation remains a textbook example of ethnic cleansing can anyone rule out but no limits of genocide may be present. Genocide. International law is yet to decide but thats what many academics and diplomats are calling the situation. What is not in doubt is that the events were premeditated. And that requires decisions by people in power that requires time and resources to plan. Unless it be meditated nothing. Happens without a plan theres always a master plan. Bangladesh is home to the largest refugee camp in the world. The right hand job all told the same story citing the same violence the same methods. The name of one village has become synonymous with crimes against humanity. To law told. Far from their homeland the survivors in this village tell their stories. To describe a well oiled machine. That the mother that day at 8 in the morning the soldiers attacked our village from the north they set our houses on fire and fired their guns we knew we had to get away. With a lot of we took our things and fled. Why dont they go. For then we knew that we took our bags and our children and ran to the beach we hid by the riverbank. But then the soldiers surrounded us like a mother to decide oh about the. Plus that a lot of the my mother the people ran away in all directions some fell down others jumped in the water. And they drove us all out of the in the Bank Managers couldnt download then they separated the men and the women who did it layover in bus and i literally. One. I dont know if they had the nomination shot and killed the man theyre out about and they might have heard about it. But i had them on with the weather got there to escape the bullets we jumped into the river and there were 4 or 5 of us we fled to the opposite riverbank from there we saw what they did to my wife and the other women. We had to watch what was happening. So i think. They didnt stop shooting we watched and cried. My wife and i had a baby it was our 1st child. And i watched and i wept. When all the men were dead they started to throw the babies in the water and they killed the children with machetes before they threw them in the river to the war. And i was the beat and killed people they set my house on fire and threw my baby into the file. The other boys after they were killed the man and children they started dragging the women off in groups of 5 or 6. Little girl they brought this to our house blindfolded us and bound our arms and legs they raped us they knew no massey. We were doing to her place and when. The soldiers came to us 3 times then they left us lying on the ground and look to see in. And it was late afternoon. I thought i was going to die. I close my eyes and said my last prayer is. That moment they set the house on fire. But i managed to crawl out. I used to be afraid of death but im not afraid anymore of the father and all of the. Men and women separated children massacred systematic rape. They used the same methods and almost all the villages they attacked. Matthew smith heads an ngo the defense human rights in asia. Hes investigating the violence suffered by the rock in japan. We documented upwards of 11000 soldiers from 27 battalions that were operational during these attacks that requires decisions by people in power that requires time and resources to plan so all of these all of these aspects certainly speak to a genocidal intent. The eyewitness accounts of the survivors are unanimous the soldiers went along. There many didnt want that city and it was a very tense and soldiers acted together yes they are with you there at least 500. 00 of them the tool the gentlemen it is a lesson killed people and burned down houses and that then i saw them attacking people with knives cutting people struts and throwing babies into the file didnt it hahaha they did it on the soldiers orders. Well the minute is out on the air then im going to be. Civilians and soldiers acting together. At. The end where there is a dead end here in these images filmed by a myanmar soldier an officer in combat gear is addressing some buddhist villagers. You know these people are breeding like rabbits there are more and more of them thats why theyre a threat to our ethnic minorities they want to populate the whole of record. Then they will conquer the whole country and take control of it thats what theyre planning to do. We cant be afraid of these foreigners. Where they are. The officer reveals the me and more armies plants. We will hit them hard and fast have no doubt we will cleanse their villages. One group of soldiers will be in charge of cleansing the area while another group will prevent the russian ship from escaping. So they dont scatter eyes were. There you know them is essentially describing what the military ended up doing which was attacking running until it is in some cases blocking them from from from fleeing and then massacring them and in other cases just driving them out towards bangladesh. You know as though i dont know we have no backpacks no food and we wont sleep we have come only with their guns and bullets so that we can defeat them. But were counting on your help in this mission show your courage. Arm yourselves with machetes he sticks around and we even have to fight people dont and small children to make sure we defeat them. There you see the soldiers encouraging the civilians to themselves take up arms and so and we ended up seeing this this this ended up taking place villagers were armed with Farm Equipment with long swords with knives in some cases with firearms and they flanked me im Army Soldiers and police one eyewitness described it to us after watching some of these trains described to us as they were being trained to kill it looked like they were being trained to kill he said to us. Harming civilians creating a militia to attack an ethnic Group Amounts to a war crime. Was a crime against humanity. And in the last few years one man has played a central role in changing mindsets. Starting in 2012 when he was released from prison this month has been touring the country to convince the poor of the dangers of islam. A holy man turned politician. So. d d we run through his harness the anti rohingya hatred inherited from the colonial era. During the 2nd world war prior to independence a Muslim Minority supported the british. Many buddhist of me and mark never forgave them d. He met the monk at the height of his favor. Sometimes they call me the neo nazi the bald nazi or the bin laden of myanmar but ive already made my statements about that. A lot of. The racist preacher was protected and financed by the generals in power. Ah machine iraq the exploited just popularity to have mixed faith marriages prohibited. Think. Im very active on social media especially on the issues of foreigners and the rape i. Listen to the biggest threat to all of us are the muslims who marry several women and have lots of children because they want to become a majority and me on mars. I s. Quite a good. Little by little the radical monks always influence growing with hindsight his words could be understood as a warning. For. The government made the right decision they no longer use the word. They say they are Illegal Immigrants and they should be put in a camp where they would even be prepared to send them to another country. Also. Driving the real hinge of muslims out of me and mar the country where they had lived for centuries. That day the monk revealed the generals plans years before any action was taken. It was also at this time that london based academic thomas big mans went to southern rakhine. There were media reports about the problems with muslims there were reports about muslims raping buddhists making the front pages of the media. There were a group some monks touring the country to explain to schoolchildren the problems of islam. A specialist in state crimes mcmanus quickly became convinced that an act of genocide was imminent. This is part of a stigmatize ations stage of genocide you problematize another group theyre still accepted to the still part of society but you point to them and you say look what they do theres something wrong with them and that is the 1st stage in genocide. For. The patriots to turn from words into actions. Led by radical monks and accompanied by the police the buddhists attacked muslim villages. It was the 1st act of a tragedy that would last 5 years. In june 2012120000 broken just muslims were driven from their villages and forced into camps. Southern rakhine had been cleansed. Little by little the ropin just lost the remaining rights. They could no longer study seek healthcare or even leave the camps. Who were going to you know any of. Those not in prison camps but confined to their villages in a rest day like. Were. All hoping. Well not. Really well. On other gone. But after years of persecution in our movement was born in regard to rock n roll in just salvation army. The only committers of this mysterious Guerrilla Army are these propaganda films. And you are going to learn about her. Without uniforms and under equipped the militants attacked me and more police stations in the summer of 2017 the powderkeg have been lit. When august 25th came around and running a militant attacked and killed a handful of. Myanmar officials the authorities essentially activated what appeared to be a very well planned operation. To massive repression of the wreckage a minority led to the myanmar army being accused of crimes against humanity. You dont. Want your mother on the Rakhine State to me and mark. The region is off limits to journalists. Since 2017. Humanitarian organizations have also been banned its a territory devoid of outside witnesses. And you know you made your. Point if you dont know where to go about it let me know when i go. To defend itself against accusations of genocide and the myanmar government invited in a handful of journalists. To trip is tightly controlled. But. We take the only road leading north to where the injured live before they were driven out. Everywhere military camps and forts took the place of birth villages the ruins of which are barely visible. Slowdown believe. One of low lives slowed down but stopping itself the question each time we pass a bill in the car speeds on. We passed what used to be book injury gardens are only the charred stops of palm trees remain. The driver seen it all. But he has been more. He has only one word to say color. A pejorative ethnic slur used by the regions buddhists to describe the range. As soon as we arrive in the north and capital of rakhine were taken to a press conference. Went by saying. The propaganda lesson delivered by the governor and a handful of officials in the finest room talent. That people in the minority will when we look back in history we see it was always the muslims who attacked the local buddhists now they seized the land whenever they had the opportunity. The government just did what was necessary to retain our national territory. The official version of the genocide. I mean. It was neither the police nor the army who drove these people out nobody forced them to leave it was rohingya terrorists who burned down their houses forced them to flee with. The accusations of crimes against humanity or brushed aside by the mayor. There was no genocide here it has never happened and never will. If that were true why are muslims still living in the region. But how can that be. If it had really been genocide and they wouldnt be here anymore. And you know as i think. Theyve managed to kill 22000 then my estimates range and drive up to a 1000000 out of the country without any repercussions and theyve managed to convince the people that this is all fake news that this never happened that the ruined their own houses and left on their own accord. After the genocide is the last stage its about denial its about rewriting history its about understanding what happened in another way as part of the new national story. What has happened since the injured were driven out. In. The convoy heads to Northern Rock on their trucks everywhere. The road is still being built but whole villages have appeared only one year after the engine fled. Prefabricated houses that the government has given to buddhists moving here from other parts of the country. The settlement show that the engine land did not stay empty for long. The International Community is increasingly taking a stand and denouncing the crimes against the right engine. For justice takes time. In the corridors of the palace of nations one woman is once again preparing to defend the range of cards. Since 2014 Yankee League has been the un special rapporteur for human rights and being marked. Theres no one to provide them to. You know ill go get some. Of the. I think. Mr president distinguished representatives ladies and gentleman im honored to once again to address you and represent you my report to this council on the situation of human rights in myanmar. I repeat the International Community going to tell bangladesh they must continue their generosity indefinitely for a crisis but that was caused in myanmar i really going to tell the Rohingya Refugees that they are going to have to endure the situation and definitely the answer to the above questions must be unequivocally no i encourage you to stop talking and start doing i thank you for attention thank you. For. Instance to interject this is it time for shes not calling for people yes of course its been delayed a long and as you know justice delayed is justice denied. You know a high level of generals who really did the ordering. Atrocity crimes they must be tried and as long and as well as others to me to me. Please know that exceptionally who are these others to whom the diplomat were 1st. Given her knowledge of the workings of the myanmar political machinery at the start of her mandate young he leave regularly met with Nobel Peace Prize winner. But in 2015 the lady from young gone refused to express an opinion on the rock into question. We met her briefly during her election campaign. But since we werent sure this state exists. Yet its really just its a complex its not something that you know you can tell us its a. Once appointed state counselor her position became clear it was that of the military with whom she shared power. Yankee leave and the Nobel Peace Prize winner had been close for years. For the 1st time a south korean diplomat revealed what was said during their last meeting. I would have a tete a tete a private meeting and i would raise many issues in had a very good retouching and she asked about my mother about how my father is doing we talked about family. When i met her and her 1st fight after she was elected use of later hand and she said oh no we dont use of age range and i told her no i cant use Something Else and principle i am going to use range. Despite having a mandate from the United Nations the diplomat was only able to visit north and rakhine once. When i saw her in 2017 she was very bitter about the u. N. And. And i asked her i need more access to different areas and in july she said to me if you continue there now this narrative of the western well may not get any access. 3 days later. Asking in march parliament to withdraw the diplomats acquitted ation young he lead was forced to leave me and mark. Have built up a lot of Political Capital over the years she is a Nobel Peace Prize winner and she used this to provide cover for the military to carry out their operations every time the International Community came in and said look we have reports we have evidence they were frankly bamboozled by a sense to cheat using her capital she built up over the years to provide cover for the military to korea to Genocidal Campaign this is complicity in genocide and uncensored she should be investigated for complicity in genocide. If our own sons who choose image has been tarnished by the road into crisis those who cause the chaos of rakhine are using it to their advantage. After 50 years of dictatorship in 2011 in march started moving toward democracy. A transfer of power from the military to a civilian government. But in fact it didnt happen the general still controlled the country. Is going to benefit from the destruction of their injuries from their annihilation the genocide the military need a way of explaining to the burmese people why they still need such a huge military at all. So the question is do we need a minutes rise country so that so the military are creating problems like the ranger so that the country will rally around the military is their defenders they remained in power there in complete control of the country the strategy was a success. A strategy that worked in the generals favor not only in a political but it could also mean big profits. We know crime status resorts riches so we know that the military are going to want to get their teeth into the resources that are there it shouldnt have been one of the poorest state in. We have some evidence some reports that there in central. There is an iranian there is nicole there is all those what you call it specialists and that is official government secret its almost where you have no access to any information theres no data and so to have access to those resources. We cant have People Living there. Having driven out the undesirables you mark claims to be ready to welcome them back. At least thats the official line adopted under international pressure. To fortys take us to the border to the bridge over which hundreds of thousands of injured are meant to cross on their return. The myanmar authorities promised to house the room in this empty camp. The camps are guarded by the same brigades which drove them from their villages. Inside officials are waiting for the new arrivals the scene is carefully staged. Yeah you know that what we did this is the authority for immigration and identification. All return these will register here. Then we will issue them with this identity card. The card is a condition of their return. And. Then they can apply for an official i. D. Card. But it doesnt mean they are citizens of myanmar. This card merely states that the holder is an immigrant who wants to live in myanmar that nobody nobody will have it. Yeah. Yeah. If they accepted the really enjoy whatever their burmese nationality. They all refuse. The last minute visit to the camp on the border in myanmar. These rohinton chose to stay in their country. Myanmar has and present them behind barbed wire. How is it possible to believe a 1000000 exiles will return to trust the promises of a country which tortured them. What is going to happen next for the ranger come bangladesh absorb them into their size what does that mean for the right india as a culture. The genocide is continuing is going on as we speak so people have to ask the question how do we get through hinge a whole and how do we rekindle their culture how do we get people back together and if we dont do it the genocides continuing so so every day that nothing is done is the world continuing the genocide of the original. 2 2 with no guarantees for their safety with no recognition of their identity the range i dont want to return to their land. One of the most persecuted minorities in the world is waiting for justice. Kickoff. To harvest speech in their chests to see a startling start with fruits and morocco attacks in embroil blooms and the young german star suits way into the premier league 3 top talents 3 life stories and their journeys to that top football leagues. If not even on d w. The power of sports. Where i come from i never saw the sun where they. Havent gone up in brazil the sun was always a man since the portuguese word for sun its mescaline when i moved to germany as a 10 year old i wanted to come to it on t. V. And that would change how i see the world because into a month the sun is family in. Syria now but the side of a good listeners tyreese a ponytail instead of a deep voice extraverted guy seemed absolutely incredible. I realised how language shapes the thinking how definitions are not only mental in may just put our whole perception of the world. Does inside save my life and was one of the reasons i became a journalist im a storytelling and i use my words to help with Intercultural Understanding my name is the one way you and i work and to tell people. This is d. W. News live from berlin germanys children heading back to school after the summer break just as coronavirus cases are on the rise the focus is on keeping children and teachers safe ill talk about the steps to do that also coming up today. 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