Ethnic cleansing of Myanmar's Rohingya continues: UN

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Myanmar is continuing its "ethnic cleansing" of the Rohingya with a "campaign of terror and forced starvation" in Rakhine state, a UN human rights envoy said on Tuesday, six months after a military crackdown sparked a mass exodus of the Muslim minority.

Some 7,00,000 Rohingya have fled over the border to Bangladesh since the...
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