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'Unspeakable' atrocities reported by Rohingya refugees

08:47 am on 7 December 2017

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The United Nations human rights chief says Myanmar's security forces may be guilty of genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority. Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, who has previously described the situation as a "textbook case of ethnic cleansing," was addressing a special session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva yesterday. RNZ's former Asia correspondent Charlotte Glennie is now working with Unicef Australia. She's recently returned from Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees have arrived from Mynamar in the past three months. She describes what she has seen to Kim Hill.