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“It shames us all”: Rwandan genocide survivor says Myanmar persecution a repeat of history

Yolande Mukagasana

LondonThomson Reuters Foundation A nurse who survived the Rwandan genocide and wrote the first civilian testimony of the massacre said Myanmar’s persecution of its Rohingya Muslim minority amounts to genocide and is a “shame on the world’s conscience”. Yolande Mukagasana, 65, lost her entire family during the genocide, a three-month killing spree of 800,000 Tutsis […]