Survivors Describe 2024 Attack on Htan Shauk Khan Village in Myanmar
Witness accounts detail killings during an assault on a village in western Myanmar. Human Rights Watch and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights have documented the incident.
rferl.orgSurvivors of a 2024 attack on Htan Shauk Khan village in Myanmar’s Rakhine region described scenes of mass killing to investigators. One survivor told the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights that twenty relatives, including three children, were killed during the assault. Another survivor described the aftermath as a “river of blood” and stated, “I saw shooting.
Human Rights Watch reported on the incident and identified the village among those affected in Rakhine state. The accounts were collected as part of documentation efforts by international human rights organizations.
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