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Matt Wells On Ending Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim Crisis

Matt Wells On Ending Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim Crisis

Released Friday, 4th May 2018
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Matt Wells On Ending Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim Crisis

Matt Wells On Ending Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim Crisis

Matt Wells On Ending Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim Crisis

Matt Wells On Ending Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim Crisis

Friday, 4th May 2018
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Myanmar’s leaders deny human rights abuses against its Rohingya Muslim population. But international organizations like Amnesty International have documented systematic, military-led violence against the country’s religious minority following insurgent attacks in August 2017. “What we've seen over the last seven months is the Myanmar military has really launched an attack on the [Rohingya] population as a whole,” said Matt Wells, a human rights investigator with Amnesty International. Wells’ job involves documenting and corroborating human rights abuses. During recent trips to refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh, he spoke directly with survivors of attacks that range from sexual violence to the burning of entire villages. His organization has corroborated firsthand accounts using technologies like satellite imagery. “We've documented more than 350 villages that have been totally or partially destroyed in the last seven months. And the results of this has been more than 670,000

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