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'Ethnic cleansing' of Myanmar's Rohingya continues: UN

<div><br />''</div>''<div>In Myanmar, the ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas continues in the Rakhine state.&nbsp;</div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Andrew Gilmour said this in Yangon on Tuesday after visiting refugee camps in Bangladesh, where 700,000 Rohingya have sought shelter since the violence erupted in August.&nbsp;</div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>He said, six months after an army crackdown, a mass exodus of the Muslim minority continues.&nbsp;</div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>The UN envoy said, the nature of the violence has changed to a lower intensity campaign of terror and forced starvation.</div>''<div><br />''</div>

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