Human rights NGO Fortify Rights has released what they say is credible footage featuring confessions from two Myanmar military deserters.
The pair say in video confessions that they were ordered to participate in the indiscriminate raping and killing of Rohingya Muslims in 2017.
The minority ethnic group lived in Myanmar's western Rakhine State, but 740,000 were driven out into neighboring Bangladesh.
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
CNN reports their confessions correspond with individual accounts given by survivors of the alleged atrocities.
The footage represents the first admission by members of Myanmar's military that a campaign of violence against the Rohingya.
That campaign has previously been described by the United Nations and human rights organizations as having the 'hallmarks of genocide.'
