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Experts detail atrocities against Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar

A U.N. panel of human rights experts returned from Bangladesh after gathering evidence of a military-planned campaign of genocide against Myanmar's Rohingya people.

Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar who have fled for Bangladesh.
Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar who have fled for Bangladesh. (AN/Ashraful Alam)

GENEVA (AN) — A U.N. expert panel returned from Bangladesh where they and other human rights investigators have been gathering evidence of what they describe as a military-planned campaign of genocide against Myanmar's Rohingya people.

As part of a year-long investigation, the panel of three independent experts spent five days in Bangladesh meeting newly arrived Rohingya refugees from Myanmar's northern Rakhine State.

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