US, eight others, request briefing on Myanmar Rohingya crackdown

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"The United States and eight other countries requested that a UN fact-finding mission that accused Myanmar?s military of atrocities against the Rohingya minority brief the UN Security Council on its findings. The move comes as global pressure mounts on Myanmar to act on accountability after a military crackdown in the western state of Rakhine last year drove some 700,000 of the largely stateless minority over the border into Bangladesh..."

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Al Jazeera

Date of Publication: 

2018-10-17

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2018-10-18

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English