Human rights abuses in Myanmar

[Rhiannon]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39204086

So much for winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

[Udayana]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39380041

Myanmar: UN to probe 'killings and rapes' of Rohingya
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The United Nations human rights council is to investigate alleged human rights abuses by Myanmar's army against the country's Rohingya Muslim minority.

Some 70,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar into Bangladesh in the last six months, and the UN has gathered accounts of gang rapes and mass killings.

A Burmese official said the move was "not acceptable" as Myanmar was carrying out its own investigation.

China and India did not back the decision, however.

The two countries said they would "disassociate" themselves from the UN probe.
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The BBC's Myanmar correspondent Jonah Fisher says the country may still block the investigation.

Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel peace laureate and former democracy activist leading the new civilian government, will have to choose between upsetting the powerful Burmese army or defying the wishes of the increasingly concerned international community, he says.

[Udayana]

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/unreported-world/on-demand/65524-005

Channel 4 just aired an Unreported World episode by Krishnan Guru-Murthy on progress/lack of progress wrt. democracy and human rights in Burma. Mostly concludes that ASSK is still trapped by the military.