Rights groups urge UK government and international community to consider Nobel laureate ‘allotment of the problem’ over atrocities in Rakhine state Aung San Suu Kyi is implicated in the ethnic cleansing” of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar,UK MPs heard on Tuesday.
Giving evidence before a parliamentary committee, Human Rights Watch (HRW), or Burma Campaign UK and other rights groups urged the government and the international community to see the Nobel laureate as “allotment of the problem. They said the bloody military crackdown in Rakhine state had left “thousands” of Rohingya Muslims dead,with others subjected to “appalling rape, and 600000 people driven from their homes. Related: 'When they began slaughtering us we ran for our lives': Rohingya trapped inside Myanmar | Alex Crawford The Rohingya are Muslims who live in majority-Buddhist Myanmar. They are often described as "the world's most persecuted minority". Related: Rohingya children close to starvation amid 'health crisis on an unimaginable scale' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com