denied. a government spokesperson from israel said there were no civilian casualties during the operation, but the bbc has found evidence that civilians were killed. from jerusalem, are middle east correspondent, and you may find her report difficult to watch. amid ruins that reeked of death. ..palestinians poured over what was once gaza s biggest and best equipped hospital after israeli forces withdrew. israel s military raid in march was the second at the site and it was dramatically destructive. four mass graves containing local search teams say hundreds of bodies have now been dug up at al shifa, prompting international calls for an investigation into possible war crimes. there are reports of suspicious finds shared with us. translation: we ve - discovered bodies of women and children and people without heads, as well as torn body parts. israel s military says it exhumed bodies which palestinians had buried earlier as it searched for hostages seized by hamas. but some
well, my burmese colleagues have been talking to survivors of what was clearly a very brutal event. certainly some kind of massacre that started last wednesday, just over a week ago, when soldiers went into this village on the outs outskirts of the main town in western rakhine state. one of the last places that military hunters. undera lot the last places that military hunters. under a lot of pressure. we think they got two or 3000 onto the streets, standing out in the sun for more than two days while they took groups offer interrogation particularly the men, all tied and blindfolded. the women generally is the gang were not treated so roughly, although there report summer rates. while they have their heads down, they could hear these brutal beatings, interrogations going on in multiple shots being fired. some were
we are deeply concerned because these military hunters who are guilty of crimes against humanity are trained to commit a crime against the people of mandalay. the people of myanmar are left with no choice but defending themselves with all they can, and i m afraid that every day we are closing into blood that will land in another genocide. until then, the fighting is largely taken place in rural areas. now it is happening on the streets with both sides in this deeply uneven conflict, vowing to fight on. let s bring in the un s special rapporteur on human rights in myanmar, tom andrews. he joins us now from north easton in the us state massachusetts.
things could spiral down there. they realized one seminal fact. the region was almost unique in having made no significant political, economic or social progress in decades. across the globe, communist regimes had collapsed, military hunters had disappeared and economic growth had transformed developing countries. but in the middle east, time had stood still, even moved backwards on some measures. this stagnation, many believed, was the atmosphere in which islamism and terrorism were able to grow and spread. in 20002, there was a report mae of political rights and social progress in much of the arab world. in following years, gains were made in several areas like life expectancy, literacy, female empowerment. but as the most recent human