ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 9月9日 02時23分

“Kill all you see, whether children or adults,” a commanding officer said.

For the first time, 2 Myanmar soldiers have confessed to taking part in the slaughtering the Rohingya in 2017, supporting widespread accusations that the country’s military tried to eradicate the ethnic minority in a genocidal campaign.

In video testimonies, which were shared with international prosecutors, 2 members of the Tatmadaw, as Myanmar’s military is known, confessed to executions, mass burials and rape.

“We wiped out about 20 villages,” Private Zaw Naing Tun, one of the soldiers, said.

On Monday, the 2 men, who fled Myanmar last month, were transported to The Hague, where the International Criminal Court has opened a case examining whether Tatmadaw leaders committed large-scale crimes against the Rohingya. What distinguishes the soldiers’ testimony is that it comes from perpetrators, not victims.

The massacres of Rohingya that culminated in 2017 catalyzed one of the fastest flights of refugees anywhere in the world. Within weeks, three-quarters of a million stateless people were uprooted from their homes in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State, as security forces attacked their villages with rifles, machetes and flamethrowers.

Tap the link in our bio to read more about the significance of the soldiers’ admissions. Photo of the remains of a Rohingya school in western Myanmar last year by @adamjdean.

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