What the records say
- When
- 25 Aug 2017
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 53
- Coordinates
- 21.27° N, 93.26° E
- Description
- massacre in Rakhine State, Myanmar
Placed at the town its title names, Kha Maung Seik.
Kha Maung Seik massacre
Massacre in Rakhine State, Myanmar in 2017
On 25 August 2017, Muslim insurgents from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) attacked Hindu villages in a cluster known as Kha Maung Seik in the northern Maungdaw District of Rakhine State in Myanmar and massacred 99 Bengali Hindu villagers. A month later, the Myanmar Army discovered mass graves containing the corpses of 45 Hindus, most of whom were women and children.
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