Human rights NGO Fortify Rights has released what they say is credible footage featuring confessions from two Myanmar military deserters.<br /><br />The pair say in video confessions that they were ordered to participate in the indiscriminate raping and killing of Rohingya Muslims in 2017.<br /><br />The minority ethnic group lived in Myanmar's western Rakhine State, but 740,000 were driven out into neighboring Bangladesh.<br /><br />We implemented the clearance operations in the night-time as per the command to 'shoot all that you see and that you hear.' We buried a total number of 30 dead bodies in one grave. Myo Win Tun, Myanmar military deserter Video confession<br /><br />CNN reports their confessions correspond with individual accounts given by survivors of the alleged atrocities.<br /><br />The footage represents the first admission by members of Myanmar's military that a campaign of violence against the Rohingya.<br /><br />That campaign has previously been described by the United Nations and human rights organizations as having the 'hallmarks of genocide.'
