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Military Deliberately Employed Sexual Violence Against Rohingya, Says U.N. Report

August 23 2019

Burma

A new United Nations report says that the Burmese military demonstrated "genocidal intent" in its campaign against the predominately Muslim Rohingya ethnic group in 2017, reports the U.N. News Center. 

During the campaign, soldiers employed rape and sexual violence "routinely and systematically" against women, men and transgender people in blatant violation of international human-rights law, says the report from the U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission, which was...

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