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Arrival of new refugees reflects gravity of HR violations in Myanmar: UN investigators
July 19, 2018

File Photo of burned villages of Rohingya

In Bangladesh, members of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar have ended a five-day visit to the refugee camp of Kutupalong in Cox's Bazar.

They said in a statement today that arrival of new refugees reflects the continuing gravity of the human rights violations in Myanmar.

They interviewed new arrivals among more than 700,000 Rohingya who have fled Rakhine state since an army crackdown last August.

The investigators will report their findings on Sept. 18 to the U.N. Human Rights Council, a 47-member state Geneva forum which launched the inquiry.