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this is the news live from berlin the un investigators issue a damning report on the on mars crackdown on the ranger using the world's genocidal intent they say military commanders must face justice for crimes against humanity the army's brutal offensive a year ago led hundreds of thousands of range of muslims to flee the country will get the latest from our correspondent in the region those are coming up.
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here in germany hundreds joined fall right protests in the eastern city of kemet that's off the fatal stabbing of a chilling national during a dispute police say involve people of various nationalities. hello and welcome my name is christopher spring a good to have you with us united nations investigators have released a damning report on myanmar as military calling for the prosecution of its commanders for crimes against humanity the investigators say they orchestrated a military campaign against the countries were injured muslims with quote genocidal intent they also announced that they now have enough evidence to prosecute six top generals for those alleged crimes. the mission has concluded that criminal investigation and prosecution is warranted focusing on the top tech mentor generals
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in relation to the three categories of crimes under international law genocide crimes against humanity and war crimes we have examined the period since two thousand and eleven the violations we have identified during this period are part of a history of abusive military conduct going back at least half a century. brutal crackdown against the ranger began a year ago the army has always denied accusations of ethnic cleansing the ensuing campaign of rape and murder prompted some seven hundred thousand people to flee to neighboring bangladesh we're going to take a look back now to hell that crisis unfolded. a never ending line of refugees streaming across the border from me and to bangladesh. they fled after security forces launched
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a brutal offensive against them last august. just looted and torched their homes they raped tortured and killed thousands of re-injure. across the border in bangladesh the refugees have settled in sprawling camps. as they've tried to settle in here with stories of unimaginable horror as have emerged. soldiers came into every house and shot at us. they looked me up in my house and then set fire to it i have burns like this. i got pulled over and worse over my body. conditions in the camps the cramped and squalid the huts here
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a flimsy and built on hilly sandy ground prone to landslides. to the world where this year's monsoon brought more misery for the ranger. fled here with her five children after her husband was killed when the military stormed their village. two of her previous shacks in the camp were destroyed by water she is now hoping for a sturdier shelter and then i had to sell my pulses all and even rice for this month i had to sell to build the house my relatives told me to make the house strong even if i were to go hungry. aid agencies have warned against an outbreak of water borne diseases such as cholera and diphtheria that most would rather bad life here and go home i didn't even if we have to sleep in a trench it's better than being back. but they're not meant to stay here in january
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me and mine bangladesh agreed to repatriate the revenger within two years. me and mine has started building transit camps to house the return knees but the un has said conditions are not yet right and so far barely a handful of ranger have returned. pulling all southeast asia correspondent on the story about. bus tell you for cover the range of prices in them are in bangladesh for many months now is the damning nature of this report surprise you at all. well the un has spoken out strongly or u.n. officials have spoken out strongly against me and mars military in this respect before they've called it. a textbook example of ethnic cleansing what happened there in me and maher but of course this is the official report of the u.n.
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fact finding mission and of course that carries a lot of weight especially because it's putting forward such a stark allegations against me and my military and even naming a senior figures who are responsible for these atrocities that were committed and i think you have to understand that this investigators hope to hundreds and hundreds of refugees trying to corroborate their stories and cross-reference them with satellite imagery so yes this report does carry a lot of weight and it will have to wait and see if this recommendation or this demand by the u.n. fact finding mission to take this to the international criminal court will actually happen that depends on the u.n. security council of course myanmar's military. gives a different version of events they say their offensive a year ago in communities was justified how do they explain their side of the story
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how do they justify that offensive. well so what they're saying is that these were all just anti-terrorist measures that they had to take after thirty military police outposts were attacked by a terrorist group last year and pretty much exactly one year ago and this is so they had to conduct these clearing clearance operations as they call it but of course the u.n. report makes a point in saying that no no anti terror. operation justifies the scale and and the atrocities that were committed in these operations where women were gang rape where children were killed were men were killed the houses were burned down and in effect seven hundred
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thousand people were driven from their homes so they were un report says that these that this reaction was grossly disproportionate and they're saying it amounts to crimes against humanity ok but so many thanks for that bus and heartache there are southeast asia correspondent. ok let's turn now to some of the other stories making news around the world pope francis has refused to comment on claims made by the vatican former ambassador to the u.s. that the pope himself was involved in the cover up all the sex abuse by an american cardinal francis was asked about the claims on his way back to rome from island. the ugandan pop star turned government critic bobby wine has been freed on bail the thirty six year old filmmaker been in detention since august the fourteenth he and several of the face of treason charge for allegedly pelting president you're very civil his motorcade would start. turning to germany now where prosecutors have
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applied for an arrest warrant for two men a syrian and an iraqi in the killing of a german national early on sunday morning the incident sparked violent far right protests in the eastern city of kemet with police saying a crowd of some eight hundred far right demonstrators refused to dispersed and marched through the city center. the german government has sharply condemn the actions of those protesters who reportedly targeted people they believed to be foreigners. far right demonstrations clashed with police in cannes that city center. leading to more officers being drafted in from neighboring dresden and liked to kirk castro . this is our city they chant in this video shared on twitter. they're protesting against what they see as a rise in crime committed by foreigners. the unrest follows the death of
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a thirty five year old german man in the early hours of sunday during the city's annual street festival he died from his injuries in hospital after being attacked with a knife two other man was seriously injured. state prosecutors have applied for a warrant of arrest for two men from iraq and syria. government spokes person stephens i about stress that the events in cannes that has no place in a democratic society this is which the feebleness that you will it's important for the government as it is for all democratic politicians and for most of the population as well i think to state clearly we do not accept marauding riots like these nor the hounding of people who look different will come from somewhere else no attempts to spread hate on the streets this has no place in our cities we and i can certainly say this for the government utterly condemn that kind of behavior.
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but the tension in the eastern german city of candidates has yet to calm down members of both the right and the left seems have called for further demonstrations . with me now is chief political correspondent melinda crane melinda the thought is a closing in on two suspects the syrian rocky what effect is this going to have on the mood in care and it's you know is germany's far right going to seize on less absolutely it will in fact it was reports on social media overnight after the and i thing in sit and from saturday to sunday that brought all those protesters out onto the streets and those reports basically blamed of migrants already before the police had confirmed their identity for having perpetrated the crime and as your report just said there are calls for new far right demonstrations this afternoon and evening and you can be sure that the those organizers will make the most of
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this. in the past year we have heard at the head of the parliamentary group of the far right party the a.f.d. say that german social welfare supporting what she referred to as knife wielding men meaning migrants and that kind of language is not at all uncommon among right wing politicians who essentially blame foreigners for rising crime now the facts look a little different the fact is that as a proportion of population violent crime is crime in general in germany is down and to the extent that migrants are associated with criminal acts it's a little bit more complex trying to analyze the connection for two reasons one is many migrants are young men and criminologists have long known that young men are more prone to acts of violence anyway no matter what their ethnic background
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secondly the fact is also that crimes that appear to involve foreigners tend to be reported far more often than crimes involving other people just briefly melinda. give us some back. east in germany it's all first time that we've seen right wing extremism rearing its ugly head what is this will come from that's right the state of saxony work and it's located was the birthplace of the movement that is a right wing zina phobic movement that brought tens of thousands of people onto the streets of braised in the year two thousand and fourteen protesting what it referred to as the islamisation of germany and saxony are also a stronghold of the right wing. party it took the largest share of the vote there in that state in the past in the federal elections in the past year it's attributable to a couple of factors the fact is there are fewer foreign born migrants in this part
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of germany than in many parts of the west so it's not that what it is is a feeling of precariousness of insecurity among many people in the east who see the decades of structural change who've seen depopulation not only the in the state of saxony but in many rural regions throughout eastern germany and have the sense that western german political institutions aren't really working for them ok melinda many things about melinda crane. sunday's big match in the bundesliga so to of defending champions by immunex closest rivals facing off dortmund and like position after an early goal by the visitors like it was dormant equalizing in the twenty first minute mom or dad with an acrobatic move to tie the school open goal helped take the lead and then more acrobatics new signing axel it's all hitting the back of the net with this overhead kick for one the final score with the dortmund. now after months of slow progress
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