Inn Din massacre | |
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Part of the Rohingya genocide | |
Location | Inn Din, Rakhine State, Myanmar |
Coordinates | 20°30′46″N 92°34′48″E / 20.51278°N 92.58000°E |
Date | 2 September 2017 (UTC+6:30) |
Target | Rohingya Muslims |
Attack type | Massacre |
Weapons | Assault rifles, machine guns, machetes, knives |
Deaths | 10[1] |
Perpetrators | 33rd Light Infantry Division of the Myanmar Army and local paramilitaries (8th Security Police Battalion)[1] |
Motive | Anti-Rohingya sentiment, Islamophobia |
Accused | 16[2] |
Convicted | 7[3] |
Verdict | 10 years in prison with hard labour[3] |
Charges | Murder[3] |
The Inn Din massacre was a mass execution of Rohingyas by the Myanmar Army and armed Rakhine locals in the village of Inn Din, in Rakhine State, Myanmar on 2 September 2017.[1][4][5][6] The victims were accused of being members of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) by authorities. An investigation by Myanmar's military concluded on 10 January 2018 that there was indeed a mass execution of Rohingyas in Inn Din, marking the first instance where the military admitted to extrajudicial killings during their "clearance operations" in the region.[7]
The military announced on Dec. 18 that a mass grave containing 10 bodies had been found at the coastal village of Inn Din, about 50 km (30 miles) north of the state capital Sittwe. The army appointed a senior officer to investigate.