{"id":114040,"date":"2018-07-09T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=114040"},"modified":"2018-07-04T12:37:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T11:37:39","slug":"un-chief-unimaginable-stories-of-killings-rape-from-rohingya-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/07\/un-chief-unimaginable-stories-of-killings-rape-from-rohingya-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Chief: &#8216;Unimaginable&#8217; Stories of Killings, Rape from Rohingya Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_114041\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rohingya-burma-myanmar-bangladesh2.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114041\" class=\"wp-image-114041\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rohingya-burma-myanmar-bangladesh2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rohingya-burma-myanmar-bangladesh2.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rohingya-burma-myanmar-bangladesh2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rohingya-burma-myanmar-bangladesh2-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-114041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp that U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited Monday [2 Jul] in Cox&#8217;s Bazar district, Bangladesh, June 2, 2018.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>2 Jul 2018 &#8211; During a visit to Cox&#8217;s Bazar, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees have fled from Myanmar, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the stories of rape and killing he heard were &#8220;unimaginable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In Cox\u2019s Bazar, Bangladesh, I\u2019ve just heard unimaginable accounts of killing and rape from Rohingya refugees who recently fled Myanmar. They want justice and a safe return home,&#8221; Guterres said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In Cox\u2019s Bazar, Bangladesh, I\u2019ve just heard unimaginable accounts of killing and rape from Rohingya refugees who recently fled Myanmar. They want justice and a safe return home. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FmbNKRdVKk\" >pic.twitter.com\/FmbNKRdVKk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ant\u00f3nio Guterres (@antonioguterres) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antonioguterres\/status\/1013659245114318848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >July 2, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nothing could\u2019ve prepared me for the scale of crisis and extent of suffering I saw today in Cox\u2019s Bazar, Bangladesh. I heard heartbreaking accounts from Rohingya refugees that will stay with me forever,&#8221; he wrote in another post, appealing to the international community to step up support, and calling the Rohingya &#8220;one of the most discriminated against and vulnerable communities on Earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Guterres was visiting the refugee camps at Cox&#8217;s Bazaar with World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, a day after meeting with Bangladesh&#8217;s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.<\/p>\n<p>More than 700,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar&#8217;s northern Rakhine state since August 25, after attacks by Rohingya militants against state security forces led to military reprisals. The United Nations says the military retaliated in a well-organized, systematic and coordinated manner, a &#8220;textbook example&#8221; of ethnic cleansing.<\/p>\n<p>Fleeing Rohingya have told harrowing accounts of the military burning their villages in northern Rakhine state, rape, killings, looting and the laying of land mines to prevent them returning to their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a report by a U.N. investigator warned Myanmar&#8217;s unprecedented level of human rights violations and abuses against its people will not end without concrete action by the international community against the government and military authorities.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/un-chief-unimaginable-stories-of-killings-rape-from-rohingya-refugees\/4463264.html\" >Go to Original \u2013 voanews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Jul 2018 &#8211; &#8220;Nothing could\u2019ve prepared me for the scale of crisis and extent of suffering I saw today in Cox\u2019s Bazar, Bangladesh. I heard heartbreaking accounts from Rohingya refugees that will stay with me forever,&#8221; he wrote calling the Rohingya &#8220;one of the most discriminated against and vulnerable communities on Earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":101629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}