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A Myanmar Muslim Rohingya insurgent group on Friday rejected allegations by Amnesty International that the group killed scores of Hindu civilians in August 2017.
The alleged killings came amid attacks by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) on 30 police posts and an army base in Myanmar's western Rakhine state on August 25, 2016.
The attacks prompted a brutal military crackdown that caused around 700,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee across the border to Bangladesh, described as"ethnic cleansing"by the United Nations.
Amnesty international~in its report released on Wednesday and citing interviews in Rakhine state and with refugees in Bangladesh, said ARSA members brandishing guns and swords~were responsible for the deaths of up to 99 Hindu men, women and children in potentially two separate attacks.
ARSA denied the"unjustifiable and careless serious criminal accusations"in a press statement posted to Twitter on Friday evening, adding that the group's members"do not commit any form of attack against any innocent civilian regardless of their religious and ethnic origin."Amnesty's latest investigation shed~"much-needed light on the largely under-reported human rights abuses by ARSA during northern Rakhine State's unspeakably dark recent history,"Tirana Hassan, Crisis Response Director at Amnesty International, said in a statement released alongside the report on Wednesday.
The report was welcomed by the Myanmar government and military, including spokesperson Zaw Htay who told dpa on Wednesday that the government"had already published [the news that] many Hindus were killed by ARSA during their terrorist attacks in northern Rakhine."
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