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United Nation rights council to hold special session on Rohingya: Reports

United Nation rights council to hold special session on Rohingya: Reports

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UN Human Rights Council is expected to hold a special session on December 5, on killings, rapes and other crimes committed against Rohingya in Myanmar

United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council is expected to hold a special session on killings, rapes and other crimes committed against Rohingya in Myanmar.

There will be a special session on December 5,reported by Reuters

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra`ad al-Hussein described the Myanmar army's crakcdown of Rohingya in Rakhine state as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.

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However, the military denied the accusations of murder, rape torture, and forced displacement.

So farmore than600,000 Rohingya have been driven into Bangladesh since August.