Amnesty International points to cases where anti-personnel mines may have caused injuries on border with Bangladesh.
Rohingya people fleeing from Myanmar military operations in Rakhine state cross the Bangladesh border at Cox’s Bazar. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Rohingya people fleeing from Myanmar military operations in Rakhine state cross the Bangladesh border at Cox’s Bazar. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Myanmar’s military has been accused of planting landmines in the path of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in western Rakhine state, with Amnesty International reporting that two people were wounded on Sunday.
Refugees’ accounts of the latest wave of violence in Rakhine have typically described shootings by soldiers and arson attacks on villages, but there are at least several cases that point to anti-personnel mines or other explosives as the cause of injuries on the border with Bangladesh, where 300,000 Rohingya have fled in the past two weeks.
Reporters from Associated Press on the Bangladesh side of the border said they had seen an elderly woman with devastating leg wounds: one leg with the calf apparently blown off and the other also badly injured. Relatives said she had stepped on a landmine.
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