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U.N. panel seeks rare report from Myanmar regime on rapes and slayings of Rohingya women

Rohingya Muslim refugees react as police and officials attempt to control a surging crowd as they wait to be called to recieve food aid of rice, water, and cooking oil in a relief center at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar on Tuesday. Rohingya are still fleeing into Bangladesh even after an agreement was signed with Myanmar to repatriate hundreds of thousands of the Muslim minority displaced along the border, officials said on Monday. | AFP-JIJI

Reuters

Nov 29, 2017

GENEVA –

A United Nations women's rights panel called on Myanmar on Tuesday to report within six months on rapes and sexual violence against Rohingya women and girls by its security forces in northern Rakhine state and measures taken to punish soldiers.

The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) also asked authorities to provide details on women and girls killed in the violence since the army crackdown began in late August.

The campaign, which followed attacks on police posts by Rohingya insurgents, has driven more than 600,000 Rohingya to flee to Bangladesh and left their villages burned to the ground.

U.N. panel seeks rare report from Myanmar regime on rapes and slayings of Rohingya women

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