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Rohingya Muslims among 1,000 killed in Myanmar: UN rapporteur
 [DAWN] More than 1,000 people might already have been killed in Myanmar, mostly minority Rohingya Moslems ‐ more than twice the government’s total ‐ a senior United Nations...boodling on the grand scale... representative said on Friday, urging Aung San Suu Kyi to speak out against the deaths. In the last two weeks alone 270,000 mostly Rohingya civilians have fled to Bangladesh, overwhelming refugee camps that were already bursting at the seams, the UN said. Others have died trying to flee the fighting in Rakhine state, where witnesses say entire villages have been burned since Rohingya bully boyz launched a series of coordinated attacks on August 25, prompting a military-led crackdown. On the basis of witness testimonies and the pattern of previous outbreaks of violence, said Yanghee Lee, the UN special rapporteur on human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... in Myanmar, "perhaps about a thousand or more are already dead". "This might be from both sides but it would be heavily concentrated on the Rohingya population." Posted by: Fred 2017-09-10 |
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