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| Southeast Asia |
| Myanmar rebukes UN over religious violence claim |
| 2013-03-31 |
| [Straits Times] Myanmar on Friday strongly rejected comments by a senior United Nations ...When talk is your weapon it's hard to make yourself heard over the artillery... official linking the state with recent anti-Mohammedan riots that have left at least 40 people dead and seen mosques razed in several towns. The UN's Special Rapporteur on Myanmar human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... Tomas Ojea Quintana on Thursday said he had "received reports of State involvement in some of the acts of violence", prompting the rebuttal from Myanmar's presidential front man. "I totally reject what Quintana's saying about some sections of the state being involved in violence," Mr Ye Htut said in comments posted on his Facebook page. "It is regrettable that Mr Quintana has commented on the situation, based on second hand information without correctly studying the situation on the ground." |
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