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UN to create panel to prepare indictments over Myanmar atrocities
GENEVA, Sept 27, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – The UN Human Rights Council voted
Thursday to set up a panel to prepare criminal indictments over atrocities
committed in Myanmar, amid allegations of genocide against the Rohingya
minority.
Thirty-five of the council’s 47 members voted in favour of the resolution
calling for the establishment of an “independent mechanism to collect,
consolidate, preserve and analyse evidence of the most serious international
crimes and violations of international law committed in Myanmar since 2011.”
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