Rohingya testify in Argentina


Never forget: A combination of photos of relatives holding images of some of those lost when their crowded refugee boat carrying around 180 people sank in the sea south of Bangladesh on Dec 7 last year. About 750,000 members of the Rohingya community fled to Bangladesh in 2017 from a crackdown by the Myanmar military, which is now the subject of separate proceedings before the International Criminal Court and for ‘acts of genocide’ before the International Court of Justice. — APNever forget: A combination of photos of relatives holding images of some of those lost when their crowded refugee boat carrying around 180 people sank in the sea south of Bangladesh on Dec 7 last year. About 750,000 members of the Rohingya community fled to Bangladesh in 2017 from a crackdown by the Myanmar military, which is now the subject of separate proceedings before the International Criminal Court and for ‘acts of genocide’ before the International Court of Justice. — AP

Members of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority testified in person for the first time in Buenos Aires, as part of an Argentinian judicial investigation into alleged crimes by the Myanmar military, an activist told AFP.

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