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muriel_volestrangler

(101,320 posts) Tue Sep 18, 2018, 09:07 AM Sep 2018

'Tied to trees and raped': UN report details Rohingya horrors

Source: The Guardian

Horrific accounts of murders, rapes, torture and indiscriminate shelling allegedly committed by the Burmese army against the Rohingya people and other minority groups have been laid out by UN investigators in an extensive new report detailing evidence for their accusation of genocide against the country’s military.

The report from the fact-finding mission, presented to the UN human rights council (UNHRC) on Tuesday, said Myanmar’s military, known as the Tatmadaw, had committed “the gravest crimes under international law”.

The full 440-page report, a summary of which was released in August, includes accounts of women tied by their hair or hands to trees then raped; young children trying to flee burning houses but forced back inside; widespread use of torture with bamboo sticks, cigarettes and hot wax; and landmines placed at the escape routes from villages, killing people as they fled army crackdowns.

“I have never been confronted by crimes as horrendous and on such a scale as these,” said Marzuki Darusman, the chair of the mission.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/18/tied-to-trees-and-raped-un-report-details-rohingya-horrors

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'Tied to trees and raped': UN report details Rohingya horrors (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Sep 2018 OP

But the grand leader of moral superiority, the USA, won't take refugees. sinkingfeeling Sep 2018 #1

So horrible.... Pachamama Sep 2018 #2

K&Fuckin'R Guy Whitey Corngood Sep 2018 #3

K&R For exposing atrocities by humans. Good for the UN. appalachiablue Sep 2018 #4

This shines a bad light on Buddhism. safeinOhio Sep 2018 #5

With the same results that have been the reward of organized religions througout history. olegramps Sep 2018 #7

Every time a religion becomes linked to nationalism, atrocities follow. Coventina Sep 2018 #9

This is so awful oberliner Sep 2018 #6

So, will the Orange Buffoon speak out against this? Bayard Sep 2018 #8

The Rohingaya are Muslims, so I doubt he has any sympathy for their plight Coventina Sep 2018 #10

K&R for exposure. demmiblue Sep 2018 #11

President Nobel Peace Prize Winner is OK with this genocide. Marcuse Sep 2018 #12

Looks as if nothing will be done, as the people are "nobodies" in Trump's dead eyes. Judi Lynn Sep 2018 #13

Myanmar Rohingya crisis: ICC begins inquiry into atrocities muriel_volestrangler Sep 2018 #14

sinkingfeeling

(51,457 posts)

1. But the grand leader of moral superiority, the USA, won't take refugees.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Tue Sep 18, 2018, 09:11 AM

Sep 2018

Pachamama

(16,887 posts)

2. So horrible....

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Tue Sep 18, 2018, 09:15 AM

Sep 2018

Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,501 posts)

3. K&Fuckin'R

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Tue Sep 18, 2018, 09:18 AM

Sep 2018

appalachiablue

(41,140 posts)

4. K&R For exposing atrocities by humans. Good for the UN.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Tue Sep 18, 2018, 09:53 AM

Sep 2018

safeinOhio

(32,687 posts)

5. This shines a bad light on Buddhism.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Tue Sep 18, 2018, 09:54 AM

Sep 2018

* Buddhism in Myanmar is practiced by 90% of the country's population, and is predominantly of the Theravada tradition. [1] [2] It is the most religious Buddhist country in terms of the proportion of monks in the population and proportion of income spent on religion.

olegramps

(8,200 posts)

7. With the same results that have been the reward of organized religions througout history.

Reply to safeinOhio (Reply #5)

Tue Sep 18, 2018, 10:42 AM

Sep 2018

Coventina

(27,121 posts)

9. Every time a religion becomes linked to nationalism, atrocities follow.

Reply to safeinOhio (Reply #5)

Tue Sep 18, 2018, 11:41 AM

Sep 2018

This is nothing new.

It's a horrible facet of human nature.

oberliner

(58,724 posts)

6. This is so awful

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Tue Sep 18, 2018, 10:17 AM

Sep 2018

Bayard

(22,075 posts)

8. So, will the Orange Buffoon speak out against this?

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Tue Sep 18, 2018, 11:08 AM

Sep 2018

Or does the rape of these women fall in the category of grab them by the pussy?

Coventina

(27,121 posts)

10. The Rohingaya are Muslims, so I doubt he has any sympathy for their plight

Reply to Bayard (Reply #8)

Tue Sep 18, 2018, 11:42 AM

Sep 2018

They were probably behind 9/11 or something, in his mind.

demmiblue

(36,860 posts)

11. K&R for exposure.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Tue Sep 18, 2018, 11:43 AM

Sep 2018

Marcuse

(7,487 posts)

12. President Nobel Peace Prize Winner is OK with this genocide.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Tue Sep 18, 2018, 02:50 PM

Sep 2018

On Thursday, she also addressed the seven-year sentences handed down this month by a Myanmar court to Reuters reporters who uncovered a massacre of Rohingya in one Rakhine village. Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi said the reporters’ crime was not journalism but having violated Myanmar’s colonial-era Official Secrets Act, and she accused critics of not having “bothered to read” the summary of the judgment.[link:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/world/asia/aung-san-suu-kyi-rohingya.html|

Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts)

13. Looks as if nothing will be done, as the people are "nobodies" in Trump's dead eyes.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Tue Sep 18, 2018, 08:31 PM

Sep 2018

If they wanted to get his attention, they should all have done more to fix themselves up, and enter beauty contests, and join the best clubs.

They could, at least, hire the best lawyers and sue the government, the way highly successful people would.

Hope UN investigators can somehow get the attention of enough people willing to help. It's no small matter, when they discover the gravest crimes under international law." It doesn't get worse than that on this planet.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,320 posts)

14. Myanmar Rohingya crisis: ICC begins inquiry into atrocities

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Wed Sep 19, 2018, 05:35 AM

Sep 2018

The chief prosecutor of the international criminal court (ICC) has announced she is launching a preliminary investigation into the deportations of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar into Bangladesh.

Fatou Bensouda said in a written statement and video message on Tuesday that she had begun an inquiry – formally known as a preliminary examination – to establish whether there was enough evidence to merit a full investigation.

Bensouda said she would look at reports of “a number of alleged coercive acts having resulted in the forced displacement of the Rohingya people, including deprivation of fundamental rights, killing, sexual violence, enforced disappearance, destruction and looting”.
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The judges said in their landmark ruling that because part of the alleged crime of deportation happened on the territory of Bangladesh – which is a member of the court – Bensouda has jurisdiction. They urged her to conclude her preliminary examination “within a reasonable time”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/19/myanmar-rohingya-crisis-icc-begins-investigation-into-atrocities

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