Crimes Against Humanity committed against Burma's Rohingya people

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The Irish Centre for Human Rights has just released an extensive report on the Rohingya people of Burma:  Crimes Against Humanity in Western Burma:  The Situation of of the Rohingyas.  The Rohingya are a Muslim minority group resident in North Arakan state in Western Burma.  The report finds that there is a prima facie case that crimes  against humanity have been committed against them, namely forced labour, deportation and forcible transfer, rape and sexual violence, and persecution.