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AFP
YANGON
MYANMAR police are investigating the murder of four people in northern Rakhine state, the government said Tuesday, days after ending a military campaign in the area the UN has compared to ethnic cleansing.
The corpses of three women and a man were found buried in a field near Luuphanpyin village in Maungdaw township last Thursday, according to the office of de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
"A man's dead body was found with deep wounds in the left armpit and the head cracked open,"her office said in a statement.
"Two of the three women had deep wounds on their backs and broken spines. The other had no internal injuries,"the statement added without detailing who the victims were.
The bodies were discovered the day after the government announced the end of army"clearance operations"in the north of the ethnically divided state that were launched to find militants who attacked police posts in October.
The UN has said this was used as a cover for a 4-month crackdown in which security forces butchered hundreds of Rohingya Muslims.
Some 73,000 of them have since fled to Bangladesh, bringing harrowing accounts of how troops gang-raped women, murdered babies and burnt families alive.
