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"The U.N. special rapporteur on Myanmar Yanghee Lee said on Friday that violence against Rohingya Muslims was continuing and that Myanmar's military was forcing them to flee.
The military is "slowly bleeding the remaining Rohingya population and continuing to force them to flee to Bangladesh," Yanghee Lee told reporters in Dhaka after a visit to the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.
"The causes of the current Rohingya situation lie in Myanmar and it is to Myanmar that we must look for the solution," said Lee
The government of Myanmar has refused Lee entrance to the country.
Referring to recent reports of Saudi Arabia and India deporting groups of Rohingya, Lee said these countries must ensure that Rohingya within their borders are protected and that their status as refugees is recognised.
Most people in Buddhist-majority Myanmar do not accept that the Rohingya Muslims are a native ethnic group..."
Source/publisher:
"AP Archive" (New York)
Date of Publication:
2019-01-30
Date of entry:
2019-12-09
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
Category:
Countries:
Myanmar, Bangladesh
Administrative areas of Burma/Myanmar:
Rakhine State
Language:
English
Resource Type:
video
Video:
2 minutes and 56 seconds
