Washington Post: Villagers Claim and Annie Gowen

washington post: Allison Joyce / Getty Images By Annie Gowen The Washington Post Sat., Sept. 16, 2017 UKHIA, BANGLADESH The soldiers arrived in the Burma village just after 8 a.m., the villagers said, ready to fight a war, according to Toronto Star. They fired shots in the air, and then, the villagers claim, turned their guns on fleeing residents, who fell dead and wounded in the monsoon-green rice paddy. Nearly 400,000 Rohingya refugees have fled into Bangladesh since late August during the outbreak of violence in Burma's Rakhine state. The military's retribution for a Rohingya militant attack on police posts earlier that day had begun. Roshid said he saw a soldier grab Yusuf Ali and slit his throat with such ferocity the old man was nearly decapitated. Mohammed Roshid, a rice farmer, heard the gunfire and fled with his wife and children, but his 80-year-old father, who walks with a stick, wasn't as nimble. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.