Myanmar Muslim Killed After Speaking to Reporters
Police did not give a motive for the killing of the 41-year-old man, whose body was found floating in a river, but said he spoke to Burmese journalists on Wednesday in Ngakhura village.
"On Thursday his family said he had disappeared after giving interviews to journalists," Police Colonel Thet Naing in Maungdaw town told AFP news agency.
"This afternoon [Friday] I got the report his headless body was found... We have confirmed from villagers that it is him," he said.
Myanmar soldiers have taken control of the dangerous and remote region bordering Bangladesh since October 9 when armed men raided police posts, killing nine officers.
Troops have killed more than 80 people in Rakhine since the start of crackdown, according to official figures.
At least 34,000 Rohingya Muslims have since fled to Bangladesh, taking with them allegations of mass-killings, rape, and torture at the hands of Myanmar's security forces.
The Myanmar government has vigorously denied the accusations, setting off the latest war of words over a stateless minority whose status is one of the country's most incendiary issues.
The Rohingya Muslims have languished under years of dire poverty and discrimination from a government that denies them citizenship.
The United Nations and other rights groups have repeatedly called on Myanmar to grant them full rights, describing the Rohingya as one of the world's most persecuted minorities.
