Myanmar's military said its soldiers had murdered 10 captured Muslim "terrorists" during insurgent attacks at the beginning of September, after Buddhist villagers had forced the captured men into a grave they had dug.
"Villagers and members of the security forces have confessed that they committed murder," the military said in a statement Wednesday.
It was a rare admission of wrongdoing by the Myanmar military during its operations in the western state of Rakhine.
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