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End ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, UN tells Myanmar
A call has been made by the United Nations to the government of Myanmar to immediately end military campaign and ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya Muslims.
The call was made by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres after the 15-member Security Council met behind closed doors on Wednesday, at the request of Sweden and Britain.
Speaking ahead of the meeting, Guterres called the situation for the Rohingya refugees “catastrophic” and “completely unacceptable”, acknowledging that the minority group was being ethnically cleansed in the Buddhist-majority nation.
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“I call on the Myanmar authorities to suspend military action, end the violence, uphold the rule of law and recognise the right of return of all those who have had to leave the country,” the UN chief said at the press conference in New York.
Reports say the meeting was staged to discuss the crisis for the second time after members of the Security Council began and agreed to publicly condemn the situation.
Around 370,000 of Myanmar’s minority Rohingya population have fled the country’s western state of Rakhine into neighbouring Bangladesh in recent weeks, according to the UN.
The violence began on August 25, after Rohingya fighters attacked police posts, prompting a military crackdown.
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