UN fears Myanmar human rights abuses in internet shutdown
The Myanmar government has taken the unprecedented step of ordering mobile phone operators to shut down all internet data across at least eight townships in Rakhine and one in neighbouring Chin states. – EPA pic, June 25, 2019.
AN internet blackout in parts of Myanmar could be cover for “gross human rights violations” in an area where a brutal army crackdown has already forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingya to flee, a UN rights investigator said. The military is locked in battle with the Arakan Army , insurgents fighting for more autonomy for the region’s ethnic Rakhine Buddhists.
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