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The Western Rangoon District Court holds a hearing in the high-profile case of a family accused of severely abusing two young girls who worked at their tailor shop in downtown Rangoon.
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Rangoon Division’s Border and Security Affairs Minister said that punitive action would be taken against police accused of failing to protect the victims in the Ava tailor abuse case.
The censure motion comes in the wake of public outrage over the national human rights commission’s handling of a case of severe abuse by the owners of a tailor shop in Rangoon.
A Rangoon court has indicted a housemaid at the centre of a child abuse scandal.
Investigations continue into a child abuse story that went viral in Burma last week after photos of a young girl being beaten were posted to social media.
A full two years after the Burmese government pledged to release all children from military service, many young victims of underage recruitment remain trapped in the army’s ranks.
