Myanmar: UN to investigate human right abuses against Rohingya Muslims
Al Jazeera reported on Tuesday that the UN is sending a fact-finding team to investigate alleged human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. Myanmar’s military has been accused of killing and raping Rohingya Muslims, a persecuted minority group, in a crackdown in Northern Rakhine state in western Myanmar last year. In February, a UN report accused Myanmar’s security forces of carrying out mass rapes and killings, possibility amounting to crimes against humanity. According to the UN’s statement, the team will also look into allegations of arbitrary detention, torture and inhuman treatment, enforced disappearances, forced displacement and unlawful destruction of property by security forces. http://bit.ly/2rBHwft
Amnesty International warns Nigeria to avoid repression of Biafra day protests
All Africa reported on Tuesday that Amnesty International have warned the Nigerian security forces to exercise restraint when policing demonstrations marking the 50th Anniversary of…