Senior UN officials have warned about the prospect of a flood of babies being born in the coming weeks and months in Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps that could be the result of rape.
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UN rights investigator calls for pressure on China, Russia over abuses in Burma
The United Nations’ independent investigator into human rights in Burma has called for international pressure on China and Russia to try to get them to oppose human rights abuses in Burma.
Burma says it is still working with UN, but wants a rights investigator who is fair
Burma wants to continue working with the United Nations on human rights but its investigator must be fair, the foreign ministry said on Thursday, a day after special rapporteur Yanghee Lee was barred from visiting the country.
UN rapporteur barred from Burma
“This declaration of non-cooperation with my mandate can only be viewed as a strong indication that there must be something terribly awful happening in Rakhine,” said Lee.
Arakan crisis an ‘internal affair,’ says China
“The counter-attacks of Myanmar [Burmese] security forces against extremist terrorists and the government’s undertakings to provide assistance to the people are strongly welcomed.”
Suu Kyi says Burma trying to protect all citizens in strife-torn west
Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday her government was doing its best to protect everyone in the strife-torn state of Arakan, as the estimated number of Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh leapt by 18,000 in one day, to 164,000.