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Wednesday, 24 October 2018

Rohingya genocide is still going on, says top UN investigator

Head of fact-finding mission said Myanmar’s leaders are denying abuse of Muslim group

Genocide is still taking place against Rohingya Muslims remaining in Myanmar and the government is increasingly demonstrating it has no interest in establishing a fully functioning democracy, according to UN investigators.

Marzuki Darusman, chair of the UN fact-finding mission on Myanmar, said thousands of Rohingya are still fleeing to Bangladesh, and the estimated 250,000 to 400,000 who have remained following last year’s brutal military campaign in the Buddhist-majority country “continue to suffer the most severe” restrictions and repression. “It is an ongoing genocide that is taking place at the moment,” he told a news conference on Wednesday.

Related: ‘Tied to trees and raped’: UN report details Rohingya horrors

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