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brings the current. matter to you. al-jazeera. villages but into the ground. hundreds of thousands displaced. mass murder. that is compelling evidence of genocide and genocide and yet. the gambia has taken me to the international court of justice accusing its government of orchestrating a campaign of destruction against the rocking of people there will be no tolerance
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of human rights violations and the kind. of thing you did he added but now we have evidence showing that for many row him the nightmare continues what. i bloody well you know. as the weld awaits a verdict when no one east has been given access to years of secret videos. and we travel to me and must record in state to meet a people still facing danger discrimination and death. the gambians case is centered around the brutal military crackdown which began in late 2016 in response to attacks by an armed group. it led to a mass exodus of rohingya into neighboring bangladesh in the months that followed.
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norm but to be a little a mother a bottle to be a mother going to live yet another one i'm wondering about i didn't ever come up with a real woman to model. this video is one of many filmed by local activists determined to expose the rohingya us plight to the world. they are a rare glimpse inside rakhine state where journalists access is severely restricted . dania. honeycombed 1. 101 east has reviewed and verified more than 3 years worth of footage it tells a horrific story on my show 100. 1 and time and now who really. he. says.
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at a secret location outside min ma we meet a former member of the activist group for his safety while hiding his identity money. we're going to get out of all of the. media i mean i don't want to be out of india. and we're going to. you know believe if you can work through this it went out of the family. he filmed this interview just before the mass exodus in 2017 that so hundreds of thousands of rohingya fleeing bangladesh.
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got. to know that i really. nearly 3 years on we managed to track down the woman in the video. she now lives in bangladesh inside the world's largest refugee camp. the scars on karim. are a constant reminder of what happened to her in myanmar she says hundreds of soldiers attacked her home in church been a village on the 27th of august 2017 when she and her baby were shot. why had blocked up a lot of what i get a handle on i don't want to meditate or go by that there was no way that i want to or don't i want to be on how little the level of the. other mother would have
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brought up no matter what i did karim as husband was also killed in the attack along with 3 other members of their family and hundreds of her fellow villagers will go to. my flat out there was. all of that the other woman by the mother by the letter got up and a lot and i know a little a little bit and i'm wondering about anger we're going to get out of mattingly what i what i want i want to let the little guy do what they want to let him go to the not only my own mind all of the way out there would. at the international court of justice in the hague on sun suchi says trippin was one of a dozen main conflict areas in 2017 pages of the most importance of the court assess a situation obtaining on the ground in rakhine dispassionately and accurate regretfully gambier's place before the court she insists the military was merely
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responding to an. that had targeted more than 30 police stations and an army base in north america but she also says this it cannot be ruled out a disproportionate force was used by members of the defense says in some cases in this is a god of international match humanitarian law if law crimes have been committed by members of the mostest and services they will be prosecuted to our military justice system in accordance with the most wants to see. the case against myanmar has galvanized son suchi supporters back home. one day before her testimony at the international court of justice thousands gathered in min most largest city young go on in support of their leader. and i mom
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and dad. and i need them i think and i am going to yet and then. i have. been the for many here the b.s. case is an assault on the dignity and soften their country. they insist the routing go off foreigners to get the wrong hands. evelyn i do wish i met you here no no no they know you little bit ruled out on the one hand i do know that now no one is you. boss for him to refugees now sheltering in bangladesh in system in ma is their homeland so tara back on doesn't know if she can ever return
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she lost her husband during a military operation in august 2017 they lived in. one of the 12 areas on su cheese list. as they were fleeing her husband decided to go back to knock that door when the above said that the muslim wounded there anderson isn't going to. do going to continue like that. and i mustn't let you did it and it. would have been a bunch of you and i did he and his egg. she. wanted to get it. so tara is now struggling to look off to her 5 children. the youngest is just a total the most wonderful of the many imo but let it happen it is there and they
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did not have what it would a little has led to the beloved the. more blood out of luke did not look good in that luggage would be delighted that he didn't. throw over the side of mohammad i assent his family also fled the same area for bangladesh in 2017. he's kept a record of what happened there in the debilitation i'm a lot of the a lot of the got. a whole lot of ican the one of the. a lot i know one of the but i kind of like india out of all about you know the level of really good to you well you know the ball goes all the other good yes i wanted to live out. videos filmed by residents show the extent of the destruction.
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i assess the attack was unprovoked. out of out of the media goes on i wanted out of out of the meeting of the people at all i wouldn't ringback get out i don't i don't know there's a lot i don't comment on a lot of the other so i haven't been learned a long time and a lot it. was not the one other disappointment that a lot of juggle than. the other fish but other than that a lot of what i did out of it with all the good i did out of it should also look at it as a possible model that all the money will do you know about it and you know they've got a kind of model like that are going to go about that are the one going to do well in the new young. men mosque of months says it's willing to take back refugees like i asked.
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but it wants them to register for a national verification card and the see a process that will supposedly pave the way to citizenship. but many rohingya are reluctant. the process assumes that they are foreigners leading to fears that even if they are granted citizenship they won't have the same rights as regular citizens. i assume sis the rohingya should be treated equally. how do you do then to write out the obvious to all. a lot of other means a lot of what the hell you do it's not like you know i didn't i didn't get it on all the only vehicle gentlemen to yell it on are on the. bottom of that a lot of. we're visiting rakhine state on a rare government supervised press tour. from yank on it's
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a hard day journey by air land and sea. it's 5 days since the i.c.j. handed down a preliminary ruling ordering the myanmar government to take all measures to protect the rohingya from genocide. will be spending the night in mohmed or near the border with bangladesh. security is tight on the drive up there are police everywhere. on our way we passed meal to g. . there's nothing to suggest this used to be home to a large community. offense and new buildings have been erected. the land is now occupied by a police outpost. our 1st stop is a meeting with monkey or district administrator who so on. we ask him for his
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reaction to the i.c. chase preliminary ruling. on the under which i don't know our i view nobody remembered to emerge in the muck of. you've got to help your doctor. i don't want in order to get out of that i'm a governor there with a general problem of you you've got to come out about it i don't want to. look. at i mean i did i made a comment on my machine i don't know i didn't know about it and i don't give my dog i'm out of here. with then ask him about running a land that is now occupied by the government. now you know where you do as we belong in new orleans we are meeting you know when we had 2 or 3 of them we were in his reply the district administrator uses the word bengali to refer to the rohingya
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a controversial time that implies that they are foreigners and i'm going to we all are you know. what your mom and i mean not you not. me my god we're going and i'm older but by seeing them as you wish you were looking at. cheering most of our 3 days in northern rakhine state we follow a shuttle set out by the ministry of information. on a 5 minute 45 minutes because they are here with their body had nothing. but a minute and a minute 20 minutes here. on the police stand guard at the village as we visit. a government cameraman films us as we go about our work. in the outfield. and minders record the names of everyone we talk to making it impossible to speak
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freely and although we may never meet a woman. in . children at an end geo funded center are able to learn and play. but most conversely if more than a high school education. is 1000 years old that was all i have learned. in the. most as father side says it's because he doesn't have the right type dentity documents you know. they're down and they have. 1000 they don't need. known any doubt.
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but then minders from the ministry of information take down the misses details and he declines to answer any more questions. one afternoon we managed to walk into downtown without our mind as. we were going to talk to him ok outside a mosque a man agrees to talk to us. but he got all dirty money out. of it it was obvious and i think if you didn't you know you'll be the one to see. but were interrupted before we could even begin by the administrator of this area who thought they in the lobby might hear during the war. between our you know made up of the marines marching out there i would induce you know what would you know love in our you know move out of the receiver oh my no one i don't know what. about the leader. i think you got it you know i was you didn't.
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and it's on a go. we finally find a way to speak without mind as listening in. the villages who have kept their distance cheering off as it have agreed to be interviewed by phone. for security reasons they've asked us to hide their identities. putting out of their. land. any. idea that. a saturday. that are going to get are going to where people are merely hoping to be not normal or you are going to be murdered burned and i mean we're going to we're going to begin to go on. your mood and they were good people or a good american here did maybe go to a good game and are going to get there there are. going
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to do good we're going to. get better but you know what if you're murdered beard. here. in more than 3 hours of conversations we learned that life for most reading is relentlessly stressful. they must observe cuff use conch travel freely and have limited access to health care and education. and since early 2019 they've also had to cope with a new crisis. or they will give it up to the one who did it or. not let them know that we have. the rohingya have been caught in the crossfire between the myanmar military and the rakhine group called the american army and while i don't know what the law. in this clip filmed
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by an activist in a. 2019 an injured boy and lies on the ground as frantic villages try to flee from 1 o'clock that. night. well you're running out of that you know better. than my going down. particular. military helicopters can be heard flying overhead. the boy was eventually taken to hospital he survived. but for others the attack proved deadly and if you. don't you drop the bomb on the whole are you good don't you. a bag of body parts is all that remains of 2 rohingya men killed during the same as strike.
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they'd go into the forest to cut bamboo says. to me there's no way it seems is safe. in this video shot just days before a trip to rakhine state a woman moments of death of her daughter. was out there yet you know what i am that is not out not of my needy as i know her now that i learned at the bottom we've only learned the new diddy and 1000000. the victim had been hit by shrapnel from a rocket that crashed through her roof. and. the conflict has also affected locals who are not. over $500.00. in this rakhine village 68 year old ethan new shows us where she hides whenever
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fighting breaks out. she says there are several bunkers like this in the area that is ok i bought it i. back out gaff. other villages are just as frightened. and they do their job in there you only live by by the neutral be r.d.f. and we know you are. a leader that many. anybody. that we've had near you you good enough already by body many. looking me up and we have been here. that. it's nearly the end of october but there are 2 more rohingya villages to visit. both were partially destroyed in 2017. the me and marc government says
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they will resettle villages who didn't flee. in poteen remnants of a mosque are a reminder of what happened here. once home to more than a 5000 people only 300 remain today. village administrator mohammad hassan is unusually candid. he says it will take more than new houses to make things right and i lived in an only child in one or another one in mosul and by my. name i and i was from london one had entered in a new one are now mile long the middle middle name where you don't. belong on the wall again until. the better leader than no more than an earlier. in young child villages have been told to wait for us in
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a school whole watched over by mind as and armed police. inside the atmosphere is tense and few are willing to speak to us. i don't. know how but rest is 22 years old no man on a ship and on a few islam is really an army. militia or be brought it up the imam in me lies to my music. the order to. overthrow the guy with the good in him on. any difficulty you know. you're from new york on the influence and. it's not part of the government site in a hurry but we managed to find the houses that were down. a village approach is us. you know how it would be $100.00 little mom.
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who is a bit of. a bomb is going to. another village or tells us it's not safe for the writing to return. the emotion of it until new. program we are not put into a new home. it appears we've been spotted. among the informant all the time. apollo 11 and. don't. care in rakhine state the rohingya can only speak in whispers or in private about the violence and discrimination they've had to endure. in the earlier on a local level. and journalists are closely watched over by government minders. we
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end the tour acutely aware there's a lot we haven't seen. the international court of justice isn't expected to release its verdict any time soon. but whatever the outcome it's clear human rights violations against the rohingya ons confined to the events in 201617. they've been happening for a long time and they're still happening right now. for 30 years the red cross has provided a lifeline for afghanistan's physically disabled one i want to meet through remarkable people risking their lives to help the decided in war torn afghanistan on al-jazeera. may you say will president rhodri go to say
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