FCO MINISTER FIELD STATEMENT ON THE ROHINGYA CRISIS

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"Mr Speaker thank you for the opportunity to update the House on the desperate plight of Burma?s Rohingya ? in the week that the UN Fact Finding Mission on Burma has updated the Human Rights Council with interim findings.The international community has repeatedly called on the Burmese authorities to allow the Fact Finding Mission to enter Burma. Regrettably Burma continues to refuse access.Despite this, through interviewing Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and Malaysia, the interim report revealed credible evidence of widespread and systematic abuse, rape and murder of Rohingya people, and destruction of their homes and villages, primarily by the Burmese military..."

Source/publisher: 

Foreign & Commonwealth Office and The Rt Hon Mark Field MP

Date of Publication: 

2018-03-15

Date of entry: 

2018-03-24

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English

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