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September 27, 2018: When the U.N. formed a body to look

into Myanmar human rights abuses

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2018 20:42 IST
UPDATED: SEPTEMBER 29, 2018 20:42 IST

The United Nations Human Rights Council voted on September 27, 2018 to set up an
international body to help prepare evidence of human rights abuses in Myanmar for any
future prosecution. The 47-member Council voted by 35 votes to three, with seven
abstentions, in favour of a resolution brought by the European Union and the Organisation of
Islamic Cooperation. China, the Philippines and Burundi voted against the move. Myanmar
Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun said the resolution was based on the report of a U.N. fact-finding
mission that his government had categorically rejected,

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and which was unbalanced, one-sided and encouraged disunity of the country. The U.N. report
said Myanmar’s military
had carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Rohingya with “genocidal intent”. The military
crackdown in
Rakhine in August 2017, following insurgent attacks, led to a mass exodus of 7,50,000
Rohingya to Bangladesh.
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