The Arakan Army (AA) has responded to a disturbing video that surfaced online late last year apparently showing its troops torturing and executing two detainees, presumed to be Myanmar junta soldiers. The footage, which first began circulating on December 25, shows a group of men, some in AA uniforms, cutting the throats of the captives beside a shallow dirt pit.
The AA's spokesperson has admitted that the soldiers carrying out the killings were members of the group, but said on Friday that the perpetrators have been disciplined for what he called “an act of revenge.”
In the video, the captors can be heard taunting the prisoners, asking them what it felt like to kill Rakhine people. One person filming the scene instructs the armed men.“Ask them to kneel down,” one man can be heard saying in. . .
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