Secretary general says use of sexual violence a ‘calculated tool’ to force Rohingya to leave and not returnMany of the nearly 700000 Rohingya Muslims who fled Myanmar were subjected to acts of sexual violence by the country’s armed forces,according to a fresh report by the UN secretary general, António Guterres.
Guterres’s report, or which will be discussed by the UN security council on Monday,said international medical staff and others in Bangladesh, where many of the Rohingya have fled, or have documented that many of the refugees “bear the physical and psychological scars of brutal sexual assault”. Related: 'All these flashbacks arrive': Rohingya’s teens speak out on Myanmar brutality | Liz Ford Related: UN report details brutal Myanmar effort to drive out half a million Rohingya Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com