It is notoriously difficult to piece together what is happening in Myanmar’s civil war.
But the BBC has managed to construct a picture of what happened on the evening of 5 August through a series of exclusive interviews with more than a dozen Rohingya survivors who escaped to Bangladesh, and the videos they shared.
All of the survivors – unarmed Rohingya civilians – recount hearing many bombs exploding over a period of two hours.
While most described the bombs being dropped by drones, a weapon increasingly being used in Myanmar, some said they were hit by mortars and gunfire.
Survivors’ videos analysed by BBC Verify show the riverbank covered in bloodied bodies, many of them women and children.
There’s no verified count of the number of people killed, but multiple eyewitnesses have told the BBC they saw scores of bodies.
Survivors said they were attacked by the Arakan Army, one of the strongest insurgent groups in Myanmar which in recent months has driven the military out of nearly all of Rakhine State.
The AA declined to be interviewed but its spokesman Khaing Tukha denied the accusation and responded to the BBC’s questions with a statement which said “the incident did not occur in areas controlled by us”.
He also accused Rohingya activists of staging the massacre and falsely accusing the AA.
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Just awful! 😢 Why???? Racism helps nobody!!!! It's evil.
Save the Rohingya 🇲🇲😢😢
Muslims should go to muslim country …sorted
Always the Victim, never the preparator.
Damn, the Rohingya are hated and treated even worse than the Palestinians!
Its the military Junta that is making the Arkan Army attack the rohingya very shamefully. They are forcing the Arakan army to a position where they just have to attack them 😢
Seems like another Vietnam war again and again..
The Myanmar government is playing a game against Islam and against the Rokhin. Thousands were killed and displaced. Where are the rights of humanity? The Myanmar government organized it. A A and they support them to kill Muslims and displace them from Rakhine in 2017. The Myanmar government killed thousands of them and displaced them, and until now A A
Arakan Army is more brutal, more racist ,they have no rule. They inspire Israeal and Nazi .look at their. symbol ,their goal ,u will clearly see what their intension is.
Thanks bbc..save Rohingya
Rohingyas never gained any attention from the world. Now, the world's attention is focused on Gaza. Neither the Myanmar Army nor Arakan Army is going to treat the Rohingyas well. So, even when Rakhine is liberated from the Myanmar Army, the condition for the Rohingyas will remain bleak.
I wonder how they are able to tell it's the Myanmar military junta's drones or the Arakan Army's drones. I mean those drones literally don't have any flags on them…….🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐. I know BBC is lying but this is ……………………………..🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 RIDICULOUS. Man the Arakan Army fighting the the Military junta and also protecting the Rohinyas from the military junta since 2017. Is it BBC supporting the dictatorship(military junta) or their brains just become sh*t . Try a better story BBC..
This Arakan Army crime 😢😢
Please save in Arakan state Rohingya people 😢😢😢😢
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Please help me rohingya 😢😢😢
What's for UN ?
အေအကြမ်းဖက်နဲအကြမ်းဖက်တပ်မတော်နှဖက်စလုံးဖူပေါင်းပိရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေသတ်လိုက်နေတယ်
မောင်တောမှရိုဟင်ဂျာနှစ်ထောင်ကျော်ကိုသတ်ပိကျန်ခဲတယ်လူတွေကိုဘင်ဂလာဒေ့ရှ်သို့တုတ်ပေးလိုက်တယ်
အခုမောင်တောမှရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေမရှိလိုနှဖက်စလုံးတိုက်ပွဲမလုပ်ခဲဘူ
ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေကိုဘောလုံလိုကစားနေတာ
#SaveRohingya #Arakanstate
#StopkillingRohingya
But none mention the ARSA, RSO etc., all rohingya mulisim militias, helping the Myanmar army. Why they help fight the Myanmar who kill rohingya Muslims against the arakan army (AA). Why there is condemnation of ARSA, RSO from rohingya muslims? from all these ARSA, RSO recruit their soldiers??
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Arakan Army(rakhine ethnic militant) don't do like that. Everyone intruding rakhine ethnic sufer from military air attack. These rohingya are actually Bangladeshi who recently come and no idea what is happening because they are foreigner. And their islamist terrorist leader group is supported by military(the same one who commited rohingya genocide).
Shame on you BBC.
Even in this hardest of time, Islamist militant and propaganda don't stop attacking us with the help of educated and trust worthy western media. BBC will educate unintelligent burmese people.😅
The case needs more investigation. No one saw and could prove about it. It's been complicated issue in Myanmar. We need more investigation please.
Muslim countries should help them . Show some humanity.
#Save Rohingya
#FreeRohingya
#StopGenocide
#WeWantJustice
မြန်မာပြည်မှာ မမွေးပဲ လှေစီးပြီး အတင်း ဒုက္ခသည်ဆိုရင်တော့ လက်မခံချင်ဘူး။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဖွား ဆိုရင်တော့ ညှိနှိုင်းရဖို့အေးဆေး။
အခုက သူတို့ပဲ ဒုက္ခရောကါသလိုလို၊ ရခိုင်ပြည်ကရှိတဲ့သူတွေအကုန် ခံနေရတာ ငပေါမလုပ်နဲ့။
Go to Bangladesh
Where is the UN nation? Why are they not taking any steps? This is absolutely massacred.
Your information is one sided eye . Rakhine state is now in war states. Don't you say Arakan Army is only responsible for those rohingya dying .There is another army called Myanmar military is also responsible for in that case.Rohingya people are already jealous to rakhine people and they want to destroy rakhine communities . Beside , Rohingya have terrorists group called ARSA and that group combined to myanmar military and attack to Arakan Armay. Shame on you reporter. Your news is not good enough to report yet.
War crime
Save rohingya muslim
Really, Heart breaking, International community should take action immediately to stop this, otherwise, they will become rebel and take revenge
Muslims invaded the region confiscated Government Lands and then fought with the locals and wherever the Muslim Migrants outnumber the locals they start fighting.
BBC will never do any in depth documentary on minorities in Pakistan and Bangladesh because Muslims from these countries are supporters of BBC in UK.
Showing sympathy only for Rohingya?? What about other innocent Myanmar citizens?
Where is world b—- leader, They don't see 🙈 this
Where is the rest of humanity, decrying these crimes against Humanity…guess what this China induced Grief will come to you eventually !…shame on you India, shame on you USA, shame on you Britain, shame on the whole planet !!!!
But BBC, why now this has been happening for a period of time and where have u been.
Why are Rohingya the ones getting all the attention on the news when it comes to topic about Myanmar civil war? Every ethnic minority and ordinary citizens in Myanmar are suffered from the civil war as well.
Also why is everyone so sure it was AA. Both military junta and AA used drones and it is not like they can identify which side the drones are with naked eyes when they were hundreds of meters above.