Attacks against Rohingya ?a ploy? to drive them away; prevent their return ? UN rights chie

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" 11 October 2017 ? Brutal, well-organized, coordinated and systematic attacks have been carried out against the minority Muslim Rohingya community in Myanmar, with the intention of not just driving them away but also preventing their return, a new United Nations human rights report has revealed. Based on on-the-ground interviews in Cox?s Bazar, in Bangladesh, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have sought refuge, the report also draws attention to a strategy to ?instil deep and widespread fear and trauma ? physical, emotional and psychological” among the Rohingya population. ?The [UN human rights] team documented consistent accounts of the Myanmar security forces surrounding or entering villages or settlements, sometimes accompanied by Rakhine Buddhist individuals firing indiscriminately at Rohingya villagers, injuring some and killing other innocent victims, setting houses on fire, and announcing in other villages that the same would befall them if they did not comply with the order to immediately abandon their homes,” notes the report, issued Wednesday by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)..."

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UN News Centre

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2017-10-11

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2017-10-18

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