Inn Din is a village in northern Rakhine State , Myanmar . The village is in an area of mixed ethnicity, including Rohingya and ethnic Rakhine people . In December 2017, a mass grave with ten Rohingya men was discovered near the Inn Din cemetery. In January 2018, the Myanmar military admitted that its soldiers and Rakhine paramilitaries had killed the ten Rohingyas in September of the previous year.
5-527: The village is in the south of Rakhine State, located on the coast of the Bay of Bengal, at the western margin of Myanmar. Inn Din is near Maungdaw, just west of Rathedaung , and north of Sittwe . It rests on a peninsula that is a part of the Mayu and Kaladan (Kitsapanadi) river deltas. Some sources of income for Inn Din residents include betel tree and rice farming and fishing. Residents have opposed construction of
10-634: A coal-fired power plant in the area, developed by a Thai affiliate company for the Toyo Engineering Corporation. In December 2017, the Myanmar military declared that it would investigate a grave containing unidentified bodies. The army announced the investigation in a Facebook post by Senior General Min Aung Hlaing . On 10 January 2018, newspapers reported that Myanmar's military had admitted to killing Rohingya Muslims near
15-708: Is situated beside the Mayu River and is located 65 kilometres (40 mi) north of Sittwe . The town is split into four quarters; Taung Ran Tan and Chaung Wa are the northeast and southeast quarters respectively. There is one high school in Rathedaung, located in the Taun Ran Tan quarter. Most people in Ratheduang are farmers or fishermen by profession. The town was captured by the Arakan Army from
20-526: The mass grave at the village were arrested in Yangon and sentenced to seven years in prison. An adviser for Amnesty International stated that satellite photos showed that Rohingya homes around Inn Din had been burned down in a coordinated fashion. Rathedaung Rathedaung ( Burmese : ရသေ့တောင်မြို့ ) is the administrative town of Rathedaung Township in Rakhine State , Myanmar (Burma). It
25-524: The village on 2 September 2017. The military released the findings of its investigation in a second Facebook post, and stated that they had decided to kill Rohingya whom they had detained in the Inn Din cemetery. The Rohingya were subsequently buried in a mass grave at Inn Din. The military stated that its soldiers had helped villagers carry out a revenge attack on people they described as "Bengali terrorists". Two Reuters journalists investigating evidence of
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