Reports emerge of new atrocities against Rohingya in Myanmar

FILE - A Myanmar police officer stands on a road checkpoint in Buthidaung, Rakhine state, on May 28, 2017. The U.N. human rights office warned on May 24, 2024, of “frightening and disturbing reports” of violence against the Rohingya people in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

Reports are emerging of new atrocity crimes being committed in a concerted campaign of violence and destruction by Myanmar’s military against the largely Muslim Rohingya people in northern Rakhine state.