Satellite images show destruction in Myanmar

YANGON, Myanmar — High-definition satellite images show 820 structures destroyed this month in five Rohingya Muslim villages in Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state where the military is carrying out counterinsurgency operations, a human rights group said Monday.

The president’s spokesman, Zaw Htay, last week accused Human Rights Watch of exaggeration after the release of an initial set of satellite imagery that showed 430 destroyed buildings in three villages.

“Instead of responding with military-era style accusations and denials, the government should simply look at the facts and take action to protect all people in Burma, whatever their religion or ethnicity,” Adams said.

The claims are impossible to verify, as are the government allegations, because of access restrictions on journalists and aid workers.