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| Over half a million Rohingya Muslims must return to Myanmar's Rakhine as citizens: UN |
| 2017-11-03 |
| [PRESSTV] The head of the Office of the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says Myanmar must grant citizenship to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Moslems so that they can return to the Southeast Asian country, where they fled government-run violence against the persecuted minority group. "These people cannot remain stateless because this statelessness exposes them to discrimination and abuse, as has been the case in the past," said Filippo Grandi at a presser after addressing the UN Security Council on Thursday. More than 600,000 Rohingya Moslems have so far fled the predominantly-Buddhist Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh since August 25, when the crackdown on the Rohingya intensified in Rakhine state. The massive exodus of distressed Moslems in Rakhine has also altered the demographic status of the state, where the military and Buddhist mobs have since last year been attacking Moslem Rohingya civilians. Many of those who have fled have recounted harrowing accounts of rape, murder, and arson at the hands of Myanmar’s forces and Buddhist mobs, in what has been branded "an ethnic cleansing campaign" against the Moslem minority group. Estimates as to how many Moslems have been killed vary from 1,000 to 3,000. "For people to go back and for this return to be sustainable, you need to address the very complex issue of citizenship," Grandi told news hounds during the presser, adding, "No return will be sustainable ... if that issue is not unblocked." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 The UN said nothing when they invaded Burma. Ignore this soon to be gone organisation. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-11-03 17:25 |
| #3 The EU army - after they finish subduing Catalonia. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-11-03 10:46 |
| #2 You and whose Army? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-11-03 07:21 |
| #1 Otherwise? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-11-03 02:49 |