US leads calls for Myanmar military to be held to account for Rohingya crackdown
2018-08-29 10:16:33 source：Straits Times
August 29, 2018
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) -- Several countries, including the United States, called on Tuesday (Aug 28) for Myanmar military leaders accused of orchestrating the repression of the country’s Rohingya minority to be brought before international justice.
“The facts of the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya must be said, and they must be heard,” said Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations.
Haley and other ambassadors stopped short, however, of using the word “genocide” that was cited in a UN-backed report released the day before accusing Myanmar’s top brass of a long list of atrocities in Rakhine state.
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