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Amnesty International has reiterated a call for an independent investigation into rights abuses in
Myanmar's Rakhine state after the country's army admitted its soldiers were involved in the murder of 10
Rohingya.
The remains of the victims were found in December in a mass grave outside Inn Din, a village in the Maungdaw township.
In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Min Aung Hlaing, the military's commander in chief, said soldiers and villagers had confessed to killing 10 suspected Rohingya fighters on September 2.
James Gomez, Amnesty's regional director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, called the admission a positive development, but said it was "only the tip of the iceberg".
It "warrants serious independent investigation into what other atrocities were committed amid the ethnic cleansing campaign that has forced out
more than 655,000 Rohingya from Rakhine State since last August," he said on Thursday.
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