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I'm Joe Mackintosh with the BBC news. Hello.The campaign group Amnesty International has accused the government in Myanmar of attempting to remake the state of Rakhine after forcing hundreds of thousands Rohingya Muslims to flee. It's said Burmese soldiers were making way for military bases and settlements for non-Rohingya ethnic¹ groups and Barosan Esrajean has the details.

Amnesty International desCRIbes the alleged² developments in Myanmar Rakhine state as a military land grab on a domestic scale. It says new roads and structures are being built over burned Rohingya villages and land, making it even less likely for refugees to return to their homes. The group is seriously concerned that the Burmese authority is destroying evidence of CRImes against the Rohingya. Myanmar's government has not yet responded to the Amnesty report.

The BBC is making an uNPRecedented³ request to the United Nations to protect the rights of journalist from its Persian service and their families. The cooperation is launching its appeal to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. It's due to begin discussion today of an official report which details have the families of BBC staff in Iran are subjected to arrested detention⁴ and travel bans. So far, the authorities in Tehran have declined all request to comment publicly.

Parties on the right have gained most of the votes in Colombia's congressional elections but conservatives support to peace deal with former Farc rebels have fallen short of an outright⁵ majority. In its first electoral test, as a leftwing party the Farc took only a small fraction of votes cast. Here is Katy Watson.

I don't think this result come as a huge surprise, I mean it's also almost in and more than 90% shows that Farc have less than 1% of the votes in both the lower and upper house of congress. So, you know that they are pretty poor. I think what it just confirms as these political newcomers are political nobodies at the moment that despite the fact that this was historical vote and it was the first time they were participating in politics; that most Colombians still feel very uneasy with these former fighters now standing⁶ for office.

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1 ethnic   

adj.人种的，种族的，异教徒的

参考例句：

• This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏，这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
• The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。

2 alleged   

a.被指控的，嫌疑的

参考例句：

• It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
• alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为

3 unprecedented   

adj.无前例的，新奇的

参考例句：

• The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
• A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。

4 detention   

n.滞留，停留；拘留，扣留；(教育)留下

参考例句：

• He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
• He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。

5 outright   

adv.坦率地；彻底地；立即；adj.无疑的；彻底的

参考例句：

• If you have a complaint you should tell me outright.如果你有不满意的事，你应该直率地对我说。
• You should persuade her to marry you outright.你应该彻底劝服她嫁给你。

6 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。