Myanmar: Police Officer and Media Dec

myanmar: Authorities quickly verified the video and detained the officers who were seen beating and kicking residents in a large-scale roundup, according to The Chronicle Herald. According to the office of Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the clip was posted to social media Dec. 31 but recorded Nov. 5 in a village called Kotankauk in the north of Rakhine, a state in western Myanmar where most of Myanmar's more than 1 million Rohingya live. The footage has made it more difficult for the government to say at least some abuses are not happening, and sown doubts into its dismissals of more grievous allegations such as rape, arson and murder. It was apparently filmed by a police officer, who recorded the beating while looking impassively into the camera and smoking a cigarette. You cannot just look at one incident and think, that's the whole thing that is happening. Aye Aye Soe, a spokesperson for the foreign ministry, insisted the event has to be an isolated case. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.