UN report details brutal Myanmar effort to drive out half a million Rohingya

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"Region?s head of human rights calls on Aung San Suu Kyi to stop violence as report says ?clearance operations? include killings, torture and rape...Myanmar security forces have driven out half a million Muslim Rohingya from northern Rakhine state, torching their homes, crops and villages to prevent them from returning, the UN human rights office said on Wednesday. Jyoti Sanghera, head of the Asia and Pacific region of the UN human rights office, called on the Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to ?stop the violence” and voiced fear that if the stateless Rohingya refugees return from Bangladesh they may be interned. ?If villages have been completely destroyed and livelihood possibilities have been destroyed, what we fear is that they may be incarcerated or detained in camps,” she told a news briefing. ?We die or they die?: Rohingya insurgency sparks fresh violence in Myanmar Read more The UN political affairs chief, Jeffrey Feltman, is due to visit Myanmar on Friday, said UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric. In a report based on 65 interviews with Rohingya who have arrived in Bangladesh in the past month, the UN human rights office said that ?clearance operations” had begun before insurgent attacks on police posts on 25 August and included killings, torture and rape of children. The UN?s Jyoti Sanghera: ?If villages have been completely destroyed ... what we fear is that they may be incarcerated or detained in camps.? Facebook Twitter Pinterest The UN?s Jyoti Sanghera: ?If villages have been completely destroyed ? what we fear is that they may be incarcerated or detained in camps.? Photograph: Martial Trezzini/EPA The UN high commissioner for human rights, Zeid Ra?ad al-Hussein ? who has described the government operations as ?a textbook example of ethnic cleansing” ? said in a statement that the actions appeared to be ?a cynical ploy to forcibly transfer large numbers of people without possibility of return”..."

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"The Guardian"

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2017-10-11

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2017-10-13

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