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UN human rights officials who visited
refugee camps for the Rohingya
established inside neighbouring
Bangladesh and housing more than
500,000 people, said the military
operation in Burma’s western Rakhine
state appeared to point to a “consistent,
methodical, pattern of action resulting
in gross human rights violations
affecting hundreds of thousands of
people”.
The UN investigators said they had
been told by refugees about “killings,
torture, rape and arson”, by Burmese
troops, in an operation UN officials
have denounced as a casebook study
of ethnic cleansing.
The team, led by former Indonesian
attorney-general Marzuki Darusman,
said the death toll from military
crackdown launched following attacks
from small groups of Rohingya militants
on August 25 was unknown, but “may
turn out to be extremely high”.
“We have heard many accounts from
people from many different villages
across northern Rakhine state,” Mr
Darusman said in a statement.
According to Reuters, he added: “They
point to a consistent, methodical
pattern of actions resulting in gross
human rights violations affecting
hundreds of thousands of people.”
The statement from the UN
investigators on the ground in the
region, came as officials at UN
headquarters in New York said they
they were “baffled” by the stance of
Burma’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu
Kyi. The Nobel Laureate, who holds the
official position of State Counsellor, has
been criticised for failing to vigorously
condemn the violence or act to stop it.
Speaking to reporters at the United
Nations on Thursday, UN investigator
Yanghee Lee of South Korea, a leading
child rights expert appointed to her
United Nations human rights post in
2014, highlighted the growing
frustration over what is happening in
Burma.