Human Rights Watch's reporting and satellite imagery analysis of the March 20 to 22, 2013 anti-Muslim violence in Meiktila, central Burma, documenting the scale of arson and destruction across the town's Muslim quarters and recording an estimated forty people killed and sixty one wounded. The organization called on the Burmese government to investigate and hold accountable those who incited and committed the violence, and separately documented Physicians for Human Rights' parallel investigation into the killing of students and teachers at the Mingalar Zayyone Islamic boarding school during the same violence.
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Publication Year URLhttps://www.hrw.org/news/2013/04/01/burma-satellite-images-detail-destruction-meiktila 1 Assessment
Reliability TierA named investigative report by an established international human rights monitoring organization, combining satellite imagery analysis with field documentation and corroborated by a parallel Physicians for Human Rights investigation into the same events; treated as a strong secondary tier below a peer-reviewed academic monograph. Sources
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