Reuters, 30/10 14:41 CET
By Alisa Tang
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters
Foundation) – There is “strong evidence” that Myanmar has committed
genocide against Rohingya Muslims, according to a Yale law school report
that called for a United Nations commission of inquiry to focus world
leaders’ attention on abuses in western Rakhine state.
The Rohingya, a stateless ethnic Muslim minority that
lives in apartheid-like conditions in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar,
have faced worsening persecution and violence that has displaced 140,000
and spurred an exodus from the country by boat.
Fortify Rights, a campaign group focussing on the
Rohingya, said there are about 1 million Rohingya in Rakhine state and
at least 160,000 have fled since 2012.
Yale’s Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights
Clinic analysed research conducted by Fortify Rights and Al Jazeera, to
see if genocide had been committed as defined by the 1948 U.N. genocide
convention.
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