Rohingyas run away from a fire that was set to
a part of Sittwe on 10 June 2012. (Reuters)
DVB News:
April 24, 2013
The government-appointed commission
responsible for investigating two bouts of ethno-religious violence in Arakan
state last year sent their completed report to President Thein Sein earlier
this week; however, there has been no word on when or if the report will be
released to the public.
According to a press release published on
Tuesday, the commission will hold a news conference next week at the Myanmar
Peace Centre in Rangoon to discuss their findings.
“A thorough analysis has been made of all,
data collected to date. On 22 April
2013, the commission submitted its final report to the president of the
Republic of the Union of Myanmar,” said the commission in a press release.
“The commission considers that it has
fulfilled these duties satisfactorily within its given mandate.”
The completed report was sent to the President
Thein Sein one day after Human Rights Watch published its own independent
investigation that provided detailed evidence of how government officials
participated in ethnic cleansing against Arakan state’s Rohingya minority.
The government-mandated commission was
established by presidential decree last August. The 27-member team was ordered
to investigate the sectarian riots that erupted in June and again in October in
Arakan state, displacing more than 120,000 people and leaving hundreds dead.
The commission had initially agreed to publish
their report in September 2012 but after several delays extended their deadline
to late April to allow the group to investigate the second round of violence
that kicked off in late October 2012.
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