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| Subject: 'Ethnic cleansing': Warning Rohingya persecution in Myanmar threatens regional security Mon Sep 11, 2017 7:59 pm | |
| The attacks on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar are a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing", the United Nations' top human rights official has said, as concerns grow that the conflict threatens regional security.
Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, addressing the UN human rights council in Geneva, said the UN had received multiple reports and satellite imagery of security forces and local militia burning Rohingya villages and "consistent accounts of extrajudicial killings, including shooting fleeing civilians".
http://www.smh.com.au/world/ethnic-cleansing-warning-rohingya-persecution-in-myanmar-threatens-regional-security-20170911-gyfe8e.html |
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