In Myanmar, 'pervasive hate speech and shrinking freedom'
2019-03-06 09:29:33 source：The Aljazeera
March 6, 2019
The United Nations human rights investigator on Myanmar has expressed alarm over the "pervasive nature of hate speech" in the country, including material in textbooks that reportedly teach fourth-grade students to "loathe those of mixed blood".
In a report published on Tuesday, Yanghee Lee described hate speech as "institutionalised" in Myanmar, where the government is under fire over an August 2017 military crackdown that sent hundreds of thousands of members of the mostly Muslim Rohingya minority fleeing into neighbouring Bangladesh.
The UN special rapporteur was denied entry to the country for her research.
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