ADVERTISEMENTA state-sponsored campaign of systemic, targeted abuse has driven more than half of Myanmar’s Rohingya population out of the country in a matter of weeks. The military’s brutal retaliation has widely targeted Rohingya men, women and children, who already had extremely limited rights in Buddhist-majority Myanmar. The Western Command in particular “has been intimately involved” in some of the worst abuses including large-scale killings and targeted burnings, Amnesty’s Matthew Wells told reporters on a conference call. An “incredibly concerning” number of Rohingyas are arriving in Bangladesh with gunshot wounds, Wells told reporters. “No one was there to save me,” she told Amnesty.

Source: Huffington Post October 18, 2017 00:00 UTC