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After Hearing Accounts of Sexual Violence, UN Official to Bring Rohingya Case to ICC

NOVANEWS Survivors who fled Myanmar told UN representative Pramila Patten about their experiences with “gang-rape by multiple soldiers, forced public nudity and humiliation, and sexual slavery in military captivity.” by Jessica Corbett After hearing personal accounts of torture and sexual violencefrom survivors, a senior United Nations official on Sunday vowed to raise the issue of persecution of the Rohingya people in Myanmar with the International Criminal Court (ICC). “Sexual violence is being commanded, orchestrated, and perpetrated by the Armed Forces of Myanmar,” said Pramila Patten, special representative of the Secretary-General on sexual violence in conflict. “When I return to New York I will brief and raise the issue with the prosecutor and president of the ICC whet...

Bangladesh set to relocate all Rohingya to mega refugee camp: Official

NOVANEWS Bangladesh says it plans to expand a massive settlement under construction in its southernmost district to house nearly 900,000 persecuted Rohingya Muslims who have fled violence in Myanmar. Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, minister for disaster management and relief, said on Thursday that the estimated 890,000 refugees would eventually be moved to the new site near the border town of Cox’s Bazar. “All of those who are living in scattered places… would be brought into one place. That’s why more land is needed. Slowly all of them will come,” media outlets quoted the minister as saying. Elsewhere in his remarks, the minister said that families were already moving to the new site, known as the Kutupalong Extension. There are currently nearly two dozen camps and other makeshift...

Nazi regime arming Myanmar amid ongoing Rohingya crackdown

NOVANEWS Israel arming Myanmar amid ongoing Rohingya crackdown Thousands of Rohingya refugees continue to flee Myanmar as the army intensifies its crackdown against the minority group Satellite images showed Rohingya villages in the Rakhine state burned to the ground (AFP) Areeb Ullah Israel has continued to sell weapons to Myanmar as thousands of Rohingya refugees flee the military's violent crackdown in the Rakhine state. The weapons sold to Myanmar include over 100 tanks, weapons and boats used to police the country's border, according to human rights groups and Burmese officials. Israeli arms companies such as TAR Ideal Concepts have also been involved in training Burmese special forces who are currently in the Rakhine state where most of the violence ...