{"id":31595,"date":"2017-01-05T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T00:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/myanmar-commission-s-report-on-rohingya-flawed\/"},"modified":"2017-01-05T00:01:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T00:01:06","slug":"myanmar-commission-s-report-on-rohingya-flawed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/myanmar-commission-s-report-on-rohingya-flawed\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar commission’s report on Rohingya ‘flawed’: HRW"},"content":{"rendered":"

{The rights group called the report investigating alleged abuses towards Rohingya Muslims “methodologically flawed”.}<\/p>\n

A commission investigating violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine State has denied security forces had abused Rohingya Muslims, a claim slammed by the Human Rights Watch, the US-based rights group.<\/p>\n

The commission’s report and the HRW’s reaction to it came on Wednesday, days after a video emerged showing police beating civilians from the Muslim minority.<\/p>\n

Tens of thousands of Rohingya, a group loathed by many among Myanmar’s Buddhist majority, have fled a military operation in the northwestern state, launched after deadly attacks on police posts in October.<\/p>\n

Dozens have died in the crackdown, while escapees now in neighbouring Bangladesh have alleged rape, arson, murder and torture at the hands of security forces.<\/p>\n

Myanmar’s government, led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, has said the allegations are made up and has resisted mounting international pressure to act to protect the minority.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the commission set up to investigate the violence released its interim report dismissing claims security forces had carried out abuses or embarked on a campaign to force the Rohingya Muslims out.<\/p>\n

The size of the “Bengali” population, mosques and religious buildings in the unrest-hit area “are proof that there were no cases of genocide and religious persecution,” it said in a statement carried in state media.<\/p>\n

Myanmar refuses to recognise the Rohingya as one of the country’s ethnic minorities, instead describing them as Bengalis or illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh.<\/p>\n

{{‘Pre-baked political conclusions’}}<\/p>\n

The commission, headed by a former army general until recently blacklisted by Washington, also found “insufficient evidence” of rape and was still looking into claims of arson, illegal arrests and torture of the Rohingya.<\/p>\n

HRW called the report “methodologically flawed”.<\/p>\n

“[It is] a classic example of pre-baked political conclusions to assert the situation is not so bad, designed to push back against international community pressure,” the group said.<\/p>\n

Legal action has been taken against 485 civilians, it said, without giving further details.<\/p>\n

The statement comes days after the government detained four police officers over a video shot by a fellow policeman that shows them beating and kicking Rohingya villagers, a rare admission of abuse.<\/p>\n

More than 120,000 have been trapped in squalid displacement camps since sectarian violence erupted in 2012, where they are denied citizenship, access to health care and education.<\/p>\n

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