Breach of International Journalism principals by world's major news agencies and news outlets:
I have been saying this since the beginning of the crisis that international media is publishing this report without any attribution that ARSA Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army attacked 30 police Stations in Rakhine State and the violence perpetrated by Myanmar army was a reaction. All of them considered it a universal fact. I am not commenting on the validity of news but a clear breach of international journalistic principals by so-called authentic news agencies (AFP, Reuters and Associated Press). It is against the journalistic integrity to state a small fact let alone a fact on which involves displacement of more than half a million people. A situation that is regarded as ethnic cleansing by United Nations Human Rights Cheif and genocide by authentic research institutions studies and at least seven Nobel laureates including the international media darling Malala Yousuf Zai. Now Human Rights Watch report endorses. Moreover, in a situation when journalists are not allowed on the ground in Rakhine state and not only media but human rights organization access has also been denied by Myanmar government, how can one journalist or a group of journalist write that military crackdown began because of the terrorist attack?
Read the Full Report at Human Rights Watch Website.
I have been saying this since the beginning of the crisis that international media is publishing this report without any attribution that ARSA Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army attacked 30 police Stations in Rakhine State and the violence perpetrated by Myanmar army was a reaction. All of them considered it a universal fact. I am not commenting on the validity of news but a clear breach of international journalistic principals by so-called authentic news agencies (AFP, Reuters and Associated Press). It is against the journalistic integrity to state a small fact let alone a fact on which involves displacement of more than half a million people. A situation that is regarded as ethnic cleansing by United Nations Human Rights Cheif and genocide by authentic research institutions studies and at least seven Nobel laureates including the international media darling Malala Yousuf Zai. Now Human Rights Watch report endorses. Moreover, in a situation when journalists are not allowed on the ground in Rakhine state and not only media but human rights organization access has also been denied by Myanmar government, how can one journalist or a group of journalist write that military crackdown began because of the terrorist attack?
Read the Full Report at Human Rights Watch Website.
The Burmese government has repeatedly said that ARSA insurgents and local Rohingya communities were responsible for setting the fires that wiped out their villages but has offered no evidence to support such claims. Human Rights Watch interviews in Bangladesh with more than 100 refugees who had fled the three townships gave no indication that any Rohingya villagers or militants were responsible for burning down their own villages. (Human Rights Watch)
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288 Villages, Tens of Thousands of Structures Torched
Analysis of the satellite imagery indicates both that the burnings focused on Rohingya villages and took place after Burmese officials claimed security force “clearance operations” had ceased, Human Rights Watch said. The imagery pinpoints multiple areas where destroyed Rohingya villages sat adjacent to intact ethnic Rakhine villages. It also shows that at least 66 villages were burned after September 5, when security force operations supposedly ended, according to a September 18 speech by State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi. The Burmese military responded to attacks on August 25 by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) with a campaign of ethnic cleansing, prompting more than 530,000 Rohingya to flee across the border to Bangladesh, according to the United Nations refugee agency.
Ethnic Rohingya village completely destroyed adjacent to intact ethnic Rakhine village in Maungdaw Township, Burma.
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