Friday, October 30, 2015

U.N. Urged to Investigate ‘Strong Evidence’ of Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar

 
Reuters, 30/10 14:41 CET

By Alisa Tang

BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – There is “strong evidence” that Myanmar has committed genocide against Rohingya Muslims, according to a Yale law school report that called for a United Nations commission of inquiry to focus world leaders’ attention on abuses in western Rakhine state.

The Rohingya, a stateless ethnic Muslim minority that lives in apartheid-like conditions in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar, have faced worsening persecution and violence that has displaced 140,000 and spurred an exodus from the country by boat.

Fortify Rights, a campaign group focussing on the Rohingya, said there are about 1 million Rohingya in Rakhine state and at least 160,000 have fled since 2012.

Yale’s Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic analysed research conducted by Fortify Rights and Al Jazeera, to see if genocide had been committed as defined by the 1948 U.N. genocide convention.

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Source: Euronews 

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