Articles by Rebecca Wright

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Accounts of Rape, Burning Children and Murder: How a Rohingya Massacre Unfolded at Tula Toli
Rebecca Wright - CNN, 13 Nov 2017

13 Nov 2017 – Discarded and left for dead, Mumtaz says she found herself on top of a mound of charred, entangled bodies. “They killed and killed and piled the bodies up high. It was like cut bamboo,” says Mumtaz, a Rohingya woman from the village of Tula Toli in western Myanmar. “In the pile there was someone’s neck, someone’s head, someone’s leg. I was able to come out, I don’t know how.”

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What 80 Million Unexploded US Bombs Did to Laos
Rebecca Wright - CNN, 12 Sep 2016

In total, between 1964 and 1973, the US dropped more than two million tons of bombs — one of the heaviest aerial bombardments in history. Most of the munitions dropped were cluster bombs, which splinter before impact, spreading hundreds of smaller bomblets — known locally as “bombies.” To this day, less than 1% of the bombs have been removed, according to US-based NGO Legacies of War.

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