MYANMAR: Myanmar troops today (Sept 25) searched for dozens of missing Hindu villagers feared dead after the discovery of a grave containing 28 corpses in Rakhine state, evidence of what the army says is a massacre by Rohingya Muslim militants.
The vast majority – more than 430,000 – are Rohingya Muslims who have fled across the border to Bangladesh from a military campaign which the UN says likely amounts to ethnic cleansing of the stateless minority.

But tens of thousands of ethnic Rakhine Buddhists, and the region’s small population of Hindus, have also been internally displaced, saying they were attacked by Rohingya militants.

Yesterday (Sept 24) the army said it had discovered two mud pits filled with 28 Hindu corpses, including women and children, outside the village of Ye Baw Kyaw in northern Rakhine.

“The security troops continue searching for remaining Hindu people around the places of the pits,” said a statement posted on army chief Min Aung Hlaing’s Facebook page today, blaming Rohingya militants for the killings.

Displaced Hindus from the area said last week that Rohingya fighters stormed into their communities on August 25, killing many and taking others into the forest.

They showed a list of 102 people from two villages – Ye Baw Kyaw, where the bodies were found, and Taung Ywar – feared dead by distraught relatives, who wept as they described the bloodshed.

More than 50 Rohingya missing as US steps up pressure
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh/UNITED NATIONS: More than 50 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar are missing after their boat capsized, with 19 confirmed dead, Bangladesh police said on Friday, as a new surge in the numbers fleeing a Myanmar military campaign took the total to more than half a million.

The refugees drowned in heavy seas off Bangladesh late on Thursday while, in New York, US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley called on countries to suspend providing weapons to Myanmar over violence against Rohingya Muslims.

It was the first time the United States had called for punishment of Myanmar's military leaders behind the repression, but she stopped short of threatening to reimpose US sanctions which were suspended under the Obama administration.