May 1, 2018

uk.reuters.com | May 1, 2018 | ~ U.N. Myanmar rights envoy calls for halt to violence in Kachin state ~ | .. “Innocent civilians are being killed and injured, and hundreds of families are now fleeing for their lives,” Yanghee Lee, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, said in a statement. Citing reports of the army using aerial bombings, heavy weapons and artillery fire on civilian areas near China .. |

FILE PHOTO - Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee gives her report to the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 12, 2018. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

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