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UN calls for independent inquiry into Myanmar riots
Saturday July 28, 2012 12:50:07 PM,
Agencies
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The UN human rights chief has called
for a “prompt and independent” investigation into the ethnic
violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.
Navi Pillay said on Friday that an initial move by Myanmar
security forces to quash violence in the restive Rakhine state has
reportedly turned into a crackdown against Muslim minorities.
"We have been receiving a stream of reports from independent
sources alleging discriminatory and arbitrary responses by
security forces, and even their instigation of and involvement in
clashes," the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a
statement.
"Reports indicate that the initial swift response of the
authorities to the communal violence may have turned into a
crackdown targeting Muslims, in particular members of the Rohingya
community."
Clashes between Buddhist ethnic Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya
communities which erupted early June in the western Myanmar state
has left at least 78 people dead and 70,000 homeless, Pillay's
office said, according to official figures.
Unofficial estimates of the death toll were higher, her office
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Pillay urged the government to "prevent and punish violent acts"
and said she was dismayed at the derogatory language used against
the Rohingya by state and some independent media, as well as by
some users of social networking websites.
While welcoming Myanmar's invitation to UN investigator Tomas Ojea
Quintana to visit from July 30 to August 4, Pillay said it was "no
substitute for a fully-fledged independent investigation" into the
Rakhine violence.
She also pointed out that it was "important that those affected
from all communities in Rakhine are able to speak freely" to
Quintana.
An estimated 800,000 Rohingya live in Myanmar, and the government
considers them to be foreigners while many citizens see them as
illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh and view them with
hostility.
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