Rape Puts Myanmar Army on UN ‘List of Shame’

Expand Rohingya refugees walk across a bamboo bridge in the Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh, February 11, 2018. © 2018 Reuters The United Nations secretary-general for the first time has included Myanmar’s military, or Tatmadaw, in his annual list of parties that have committed sexual violence in armed conflict. Presented today to the UN Security Council, the report details conflict-related sexual violence carried out in 2017 by national armed forces and non-state armed groups in 19 countries, spotlighting its use as a weapon of war and persecution. The report finds that the Myanmar armed forces’…

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