Security Forces: Mass Atrocities and Satellite Images

security forces: Satellite images of Burma's troubled Rakhine state, released to The Associated Press by Colorado-based Digital Globe on Friday, show that dozens of empty villages and hamlets have been completely levelled by authorities in recent weeks far more than previously reported, according to Toronto Star. The villages were all set ablaze in the wake of violence last August, when a brutal clearance operation by security forces drove hundreds of thousands of Rohingya into exile in Bangladesh. Now, Burma's government is using bulldozers to literally erase them from the earth in a vast operation rights groups say is destroying crucial evidence of mass atrocities against the nation's ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority. While Burma's government claims it's simply trying to rebuild a devastated region, the operation has raised deep concern among human rights advocates, who say the government is destroying what amounts to scores of crime scenes before any credible investigation takes place. One displaced Rohingya woman, whose village was among those razed, said she recently visited her former home in Myin Hlut and was shocked by what she saw. The operation has also horrified the Rohingya, who believe the government is intentionally eviscerating the dwindling remnants of their culture to make it nearly impossible for them to return. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.