Articles by Ashley S. Kinseth

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Were the Rohingya Massacres Pre-Planned?
Ashley S. Kinseth – Dhaka Tribune, 23 Jul 2018

According the survivors, their village was entirely fenced off with barbed wire for 45 straight days before it was attacked. After running out of food, they said, the villagers resorted to eating leaves to survive—with two neighbors ultimately dying of starvation. The final attack came on August 26. Faking his own death with only his eyes and nose above the water of a fishing pond, the villager recalls vividly witnessing a series of murders, gang-rapes, and neighbour-filled shelters set ablaze with RPGs. The only survivors, they reported, were those who had managed to wait out the atrocities in the water, smoke, or weeds.

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