U.N. sees “textbook example of ethnic cleansing” in Myanmar
By Reuters
11 September 2017 |
3:04 pm
The UN's top human rights official is slamming Myanmar's crackdown in Rakhine State as "brutal". Violence has forced nearly 300,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh.
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