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25-05-2024, 10:36 PM
Some 45,000 Rohingya flee amid allegations of beheading, burning in Myanmar. UN rights chief Volker Turk urges Bangladesh, other countries ‘to provide effective protection’ to the latest refugees
Rohingya: Some 45,000 Rohingya flee amid allegations of beheading, burning in Myanmar
UN rights chief Volker Turk urges Bangladesh, other countries ‘to provide effective protection’ to the latest refugees.
Rohingya refugees look through the debris of their houses charred by a fire at the Ukhia camp in Cox's Bazar on May 24, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
More than a million Rohingya have already fled Rakhine State, including hundreds of thousands in 2017, and most have been staying as refugees in
Bangaladesh's Cox's Bazar [AFP]
Escalating violence in conflict-torn Myanmar’s Rakhine State has forced another 45,000 minority Rohingya to flee, the United Nations warned, amid allegations of beheadings, killings and burnings of property.
Clashes have rocked Rakhine State since the Arakan Army (AA) rebels attacked forces of the ruling military government in November, ending a ceasefire that had largely held since a military coup in 2021. The fighting has caught in the middle. Muslim minority group, long considered outsiders by the majority Buddhist residents, either from the govt or the rebel side.
The AA says it is fighting for more autonomy for the ethnic Rakhine population in the state, which is also home to an estimated 600,000 members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority, who have chosen to remain in the country.
More than a million Rohingya have taken shelter in neighbouring Bangladesh after fleeing Rakhine, including hundreds of thousands in 2017 during earlier crackdown by military, now the subject of a UN genocide court case.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/25...in-myanmar
Rohingya: Some 45,000 Rohingya flee amid allegations of beheading, burning in Myanmar
UN rights chief Volker Turk urges Bangladesh, other countries ‘to provide effective protection’ to the latest refugees.
Rohingya refugees look through the debris of their houses charred by a fire at the Ukhia camp in Cox's Bazar on May 24, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
More than a million Rohingya have already fled Rakhine State, including hundreds of thousands in 2017, and most have been staying as refugees in
Bangaladesh's Cox's Bazar [AFP]
Escalating violence in conflict-torn Myanmar’s Rakhine State has forced another 45,000 minority Rohingya to flee, the United Nations warned, amid allegations of beheadings, killings and burnings of property.
Clashes have rocked Rakhine State since the Arakan Army (AA) rebels attacked forces of the ruling military government in November, ending a ceasefire that had largely held since a military coup in 2021. The fighting has caught in the middle. Muslim minority group, long considered outsiders by the majority Buddhist residents, either from the govt or the rebel side.
The AA says it is fighting for more autonomy for the ethnic Rakhine population in the state, which is also home to an estimated 600,000 members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority, who have chosen to remain in the country.
More than a million Rohingya have taken shelter in neighbouring Bangladesh after fleeing Rakhine, including hundreds of thousands in 2017 during earlier crackdown by military, now the subject of a UN genocide court case.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/25...in-myanmar
