UN Urges Probe On Violence In Myanmar Muslim Region

Tomas Ojea Quintana, left, U.N human rights envoy to Myanmar, talks to journalists during a press conference at Yagon International Airport Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012, in Yangon, Myanmar. The UN’s human rights envoy to Myanmar, Tomas Ojea Quintana has called for an urgent independent investigation into the recent bloody inter-communal violence in Rakhine state that left at least 78 dead and tens of thousands homeless. <AP/NEWSis>

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