Myanmar violence against Rohingya Muslims very horrific: UN

‘A United Nations official has deplored “harrowing” acts of violence and discrimination against the Rohingya in Myanmar, calling on the country to put an end to its crackdown on the Muslim minority.
Yanghee Lee, a UN envoy for a mission to Bangladesh to visit Rohingya Muslims fleeing neighboring Myanmar, said Monday that she had heard appalling accounts which proved that the violence against the minority group was “far more extensive” than she had previously realized.
She said Rohingya refugees had told her about gang-rapes of women by Myanmar’s government forces, people whose throats were slit and children who were thrown into fire.
Lee, who ended her four-day trip to Bangladesh on Friday, said in a statement that she had heard “allegation after allegation” of horrific events from the crackdown that began in Myanmar’s Rakhine State last October and forced tens of thousands into squalid camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district.’
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