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Myanmar Army Killed and Raped in Rohingya Ethnic Cleansing: UN
Reuters – Channel News Asia,
6 Feb 2017
Myanmar’s security forces have committed mass killings and gang rapes of Rohingya Muslims and burned their villages since October in a campaign that probably amounts to crimes against humanity and possibly “ethnic cleansing”, the U.N. human rights office said on Friday [3 Feb].
→ read full articleProtests in Asian Capitals over Violence against Rohingya
Channel News Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Angry protesters took to the streets in cities from Jakarta to Dhaka on Friday (Nov 25, 2016) to denounce Myanmar over allegations of indiscriminate killing and rape in a military crackdown on the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority.
→ read full articleUN Body “Alarmed” by US Killings of Afghan Children
Channel News Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
A UN committee has expressed “alarm” over reports that hundreds of children have been killed by US military forces in Afghanistan in the past five years. The Geneva-based Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) said the deaths were “due notably to reported lack of precautionary measures and indiscriminate use of force”. The report, received by AFP on Friday [8 Feb 2013], also expressed concern that troops responsible for the killing of children had not always been held accountable and that family grievances had not been redressed.
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