Rohingyas executed by Buddhist, Myanmar army troops

It was a shallow grave dug for 10 Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.

The captives watched their Buddhist neighbors dig it.

These three photos were given to Reuters by a Rakhine Buddhist village elder, and show key moments before and after the ten Rohingyas' execution near the village of İnn Dinn.

Two of the gravediggers exclusively told Reuters at least two of the victims were hacked to death by villagers. The rest were shot by Myanmar army troops.

İt's just one bloody episode in a wave of ethnic violence that's sent nearly 690,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing the country.

However, it's the first ever reconstructed with photos and testimony from not only victims, but Rakhine Buddhist villagers themselves.

İn addition, paramilitary police officers gave the first insider descriptions of operations to drive out the Rohingya -- confirming that the military played the lead role in the campaign in İnn Dinn.

The investigation of the İnn Dinn massacre is what prompted the arrest of two Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo.

Reuters' Simon Lewis went to the Balukali refugee camp in Bangladesh and found family members of the victims who confirmed parts of the stories from paramilitary police.