Autonomy Rights: Rakhine and Rohingya Muslims

autonomy rights: The Arakan Army AA has in recent months mounted several attacks on security forces and officials in its struggle for more autonomy and rights for Rakhine people, according to The Japan Times. The attack late Saturday took place in Yoetayoke village, just an hour north of Rakhine state's capital, Sittwe. A bloody military crackdown in 2017 forced some 740,000 Rohingya Muslims over the border into Bangladesh in violence U.N. investigators have said warrants the prosecution of top generals for genocide and crimes against humanity. ; But the armed forces are now waging a war against a militant group claiming to represent the state's ethnic Rakhine Buddhists, a population that also stands accused of aiding soldiers in their expulsion of the Rohingya. Images showed bodies lying on the ground, covered in blankets with a pool of blood soaking into the dust on the grounds of the ramshackle police station. A leaked police report said weapons were also taken from the police post. Nine police were killed, one was injured and another one is missing, a senior police officer said, not wanting to be named. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.