Inn Din massacre

Inn Din massacre
Inn Din massacre
Part of the Rohingya genocide
	The victims of the Inn Din massacre, photographed by soldiers before they were executed at a nearby hill.
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
Perpetrators	33rd Light Infantry Division of the Myanmar Army and local paramilitaries (8th Security Police Battalion)
Motive	Anti-Rohingya sentiment, Islamophobia
Accused	16
Convicted	7
Verdict	10 years in prison with hard labour
Charges	Murder

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]

^ ^a ^b ^c Lone, Wa; Oo, Kyaw Soe; Lewis, Simon; Slodkowski, Antoni. "Massacre in Myanmar: One grave for 10 Rohingya men". Reuters. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
^ Naing Zaw, Htet (13 February 2018). "7 Tatmadaw Soldiers to Be Held Accountable for Killing of 10 Muslims in Rakhine". The Irrawaddy. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c Naing, Shoon; Aung, Thu Thu (10 April 2018). "Seven Myanmar soldiers sentenced to 10 years for Rohingya massacre". Reuters. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
^ Taylor, Adam (10 January 2018). "In a first, Burmese military admits that soldiers killed Rohingya found in mass grave". The Washington Post. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
^ "Myanmar military: Soldiers killed 10 captured Rohingya terrorists after Buddhists forced them into grave". The Japan Times. Reuters. 11 January 2018. Retrieved 10 January 2018. 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.
^ Westcott, Ben. "Reuters report alleges murder, arson by Myanmar's military". CNN. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
^ "Rohingya crisis: Myanmar army admits killings". BBC. 10 January 2018. Retrieved 10 January 2018.