Myanmar erases name of Rohingya village razed in 2017 ethnic cleansing
On maps produced in 2020 by the UN mapping unit in Myanmar, which it says are based on Myanmar government maps, the site of the destroyed village is now nameless
12 September 2020 - 08:00
Cox’s Bazar — Three years ago, Myanmar’s military burnt the Rohingya village of Kan Kya to the ground and bulldozed over its remains. In 2019, the government erased its name from official maps, according to the UN.
About 5km from the Naf River that marks the border between Myanmar’s Rakhine state and Bangladesh, Kan Kya was home to hundreds of people before the army chased 730,000 Rohingya out of the country in 2017 in what the UN described as “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing”...
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