Burma's Military "Massacred Villagers": Daily Brief

The Burmese military massacred dozens of Rohingya Muslims in Maung Nu village in Burma’s Rakhine State late last month, new HRW research shows. Witnesses say Burmese soldiers beat, sexually assaulted, stabbed and shot villagers who had gathered for safety in a residential compound. Satellite imagery analyzed by HRW shows the "near total destruction" of the villages of Maung Nu and nearby Hpaung Taw Pyin. The United Nations appears set to accuse the Saudi Arabia-led coalition fighting in Yemen of killing and maiming children there, a leaked report suggests. The coalition was briefly added to the UN's child killer blacklist last year, but was swiftly removed amid reports that Saudi Arabia had threatened to cut its UN funding in response. In a legal first for Botswana, the country’s High Court has ruled that a transgender man should be allowed to hold official documents that reflect his gender identity. Hungary’s third tax-payer-funded campaign which appears aimed at fueling anti-foreigner sentiment is well underway. In the aftermath of a terrible mass shooting in Las Vegas - the deadliest in US history - many are continuing to call for greater gun control. There's good news from Jordan, where after years of promising reform, the country's parliament has finally approved a series of important human rights reforms. Recent disclosures by the whistleblower Edward Snowden demonstrate how the US government’s involvement with Ethiopia is a classic case study in enabling repressive regimes to carry out surveillance on their own citizens.