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GENEVA (REUTERS, AFP) – Muslim Rohingya Continues to Flee Myanmar's Rakhine State, Many Testifying to Violence, Persecution, Killings and Burning of Their Homes, United Nations on Wednesday (July 4).
So far this year, 11,432 arrived in Bangladesh, where more than 700,000 have fled since an August 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said.
"No amount of rhetoric can whitewash these facts People are still fleeing persecution in Rakhine – and are even willing to risk dying at sea to escape, "Zeid told the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Many Rohingya refugees also reported being pressured by Myanmar to accept national verification
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"They then received a presidential pardon, but have just been transferred from Buthidaung prison to a so-called 'reception center', in conditions that appear tantamount to administrative detention, "Zeid said.
" Government representatives have repeatedly stated that Myanmar is ready to accept returnees and yet … many – if not all – of those who has returned from their own accord have been detained. "
Rohingya return, but only a handful of the refugees have decided to move, while senior Rakhine remains too dangerous for repatriation. The Rohingya fled to violent army crackdown in August (2017), which has been reported by the United States in the history of violence, [1]
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Kyaw Moe Tun, director general of Myanmar's foreign ministry, said a top priority for his government was to find a "sustainable solution" in Rakhine. It was agreed with Bangladesh in January 2018 that repatriation of refugees would be completed within two years, he said, without using the word Rohingya.
He said that Zeid's report contained information that was "distorted or exaggerated".
" KILLINGS IN BANGLADESH CAMPS
Bangladesh, meanwhile, is deploying in the south, officials said, after a series of mostly unexplained killings.
Since August, 19 people, some of them community leaders, have been killed. Police have made a number of arrests in connection with some of the killings, but say the motives often remain unclear.
Conducted after dark and often by groups of men wielding pistols, knives, and sticks, the killings have a chill through the camps, which are guarded by the Bangladesh army during the day by the police officers
Even before the August exodus, there had been violence in the camps, which Bangladesh police and aid workers have previously blamed on
The latest killing, of a 35-year-old named Arifullah, took place last month on a busy road outside the Balukhali camp, where he had been appointed a leader of thousands of refugees
A group of men surrounded him on the evening of June 18, stabbing him at least 25 times, police said.
AKM Iqbal Hossain, police superintendent of the coastal town of Cox's Bazaar under whose jurisdiction fall, said a special force of
A senior senior officer, Superintendent Afrujul Haque Tutul, said police numbers were already being increased.
"We have 1,000 police officers right now for a million people, so you can imagine, "he said.
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