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UN rights chief in Bangladesh, to visit Rohingya camps

Rohingya refugee children play outside their home at Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia, Bangladesh on Thursday. (AFP photo)

United Nations rights chief Michelle Bachelet arrived in Bangladesh on Sunday for a four-day visit that will include a trip to squalid camps housing nearly a million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.

The exodus of Rohingya was sparked by a 2017 Myanmar army offensive against the mostly Muslim minority, with the UN's highest court last month giving the green light to a landmark case accusing the Buddhist-majority country of genocide.

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