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The security operation targeting Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar "seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing", the UN human rights chief says.

Zeid Raad Al Hussein urged Myanmar to end the "cruel military operation" in Rakhine state.

More than 300,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh since violence erupted there late last month.

The military says it is responding to attacks by Rohingya militants and denies it is targeting civilians.

The violence began on 25 August when the Rohingya militants attacked police posts in northern Rakhine, killing 12 security personnel.

Rohingyas who have fled Myanmar since then say the military responded with a brutal campaign, burning villages and attacking civilians in a bid to drive them out.

The Rohingya, a stateless mostly Muslim minority in Buddhist-majority Rakhine, have long experienced persecution in Myanmar, which says they are illegal immigrants.

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Media captionWho is burning down Rohingya villages?
Mr Zeid, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said the current operation in Rakhine was "clearly disproportionate".

He noted that the situation could not be fully assessed because Myanmar had refused access to human rights investigators, but said the UN had received "multiple reports and satellite imagery of security forces and local militia burning Rohingya villages, and consistent accounts of extrajudicial killings, including shooting fleeing civilians".

"I call on the government to end its current cruel military operation, with accountability for all violations that have occurred and to reverse the pattern of severe and widespread discrimination against the Rohingya population," he said.

Latest reports put the number of those who have fled to Bangladesh at 313,000. Aid agencies say they are in desperate need of food, shelter and medical aid, and that current resources are inadequate.

Bangladesh is already host to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who have fled previous outbreaks of violence in Rakhine. Existing refugee camps are full and the new arrivals are sleeping rough in whatever space they can find, reports say.

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Media captionJustin Rowlatt reports from the Bangladesh border
The authorities have, however, started to register the new arrivals. Previously only those in two official camps were being documented, but government teams are now collecting fingerprints and details from all newcomers, including those in makeshift shelters.

Analysts say that, until now, the government has refused to register those outside camps for fear of legitimising them. But the current move may help the government as it engages in a diplomatic battle about the Rohingyas' future, the BBC's Sanjoy Majumder reports.

On Sunday, the Rohingya militant group behind the 25 August attacks declared a one-month unilateral ceasefire to allow aid agencies in, but the Myanmar government rejected it, saying it would not negotiate with "terrorists".

It maintains that it is the militants who are burning Rohingya villages and targeting civilians, but a BBC correspondent on an official visit to Rakhine came across a Muslim village apparently burned by Rakhine Buddhists, contradicting the official narrative.

Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's de facto leader, is facing mounting criticism for failing to protect the Rohingya, and on Monday exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama added his voice, urging her "to reach out to all sections of society to try to restore friendly relations".

But the Rohingya are extremely unpopular inside Myanmar. On Sunday, police fired rubber bullets to break up a mob attacking the home of a Muslim butcher in Magway region in central Myanmar. One protester was quoted by AFP news agency saying it was a response to events in Rakhine.
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After all the shit going on in Europe? Come on, who can blame these guys.

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This has been happening for years but its only just now getting mainstream attention. Even Muslim communities have barely payed any attention to it until now as well, I've probably seen more Muslims discussing this in the last two weeks than I've seen since it started.

Its primarily because Islam, despite what its adherents claim, is an extremely ethnocentric religion with the primary focus on the Arab world and the surrounding areas/people. But i also think a lot of Muslims realize that the Rohingya draw a very troubling comparison to the Palestinians, having two groups of "persecuted" Muslims demanding international aid to save them from their neighbors might make some people question why Islam seems to cause strife wherever its practiced.

And FYI, from what I've seen from Muslims who are just now starting to give a shit about this, some of them have really exceptional notions about what should be done to help them. One such idea I've seen floated by quite a few is that Turkey (Iran is also mentioned a lot) should invade Burma. I can only imagine the shitstorm that would occur if a predominately Muslim nation (who happens to be a NATO member) started shit on China's doorstep.
 
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Myanmar Police Detain 30 Rohingya Traveling to Yangon For Work, Emigration

They were fleeing poverty and lack of freedom in their native Rakhine state.
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Myanmar Police Detain 30 Rohingya Traveling to Yangon For Work, Emigration
2019-09-27

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Rohingya Muslims apprehended by Myanmar police sit on the floor of the Ngapudaw township police station in Myanmar's Ayeyarwady region, Sept. 26, 2019.

Rohingya Muslims apprehended by Myanmar police sit on the floor of the Ngapudaw township police station in Myanmar's Ayeyarwady region, Sept. 26, 2019.
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Police in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady region Thursday night apprehended 30 young Rohingya Muslims from northern Rakhine state for failing to have approved travel documents as they headed to the commercial city Yangon, believing that some were going to leave the country, local officials said.
The group intercepted by Ayeyarwady region’s Ngapudaw township police at Yaykyaw village tract in Ngayoke Kaung town included 20 women and mostly underage children, and all ranged in age from four years old to 27 years old, with most being around 15 years old, officials said.
Authorities said the Rohingya came from Thetkeibyin and Thaechaung villages in Rakhine’s Sittwe township.
“They include nine adult males, one young boy, and 20 females,” Yaykyaw village tract administrator Myint Soe told RFA’s Myanmar Service.
Authorities at the Ngayokekaung town police station are questioning the members of the group, he said.
“They said they came from Sittwe by boat,” Myint Soe said. “They landed at the Ngayokekaung Bridge near Yaykyaw, and then they were all squeezed into a [Mitsubishi] Pajero [SUV] to proceed.”
The Rohingya told police that they paid between 500,000 and 700,000 kyats (U.S. $ 3,900-U.S. $5,460) to traffickers who arranged their transportation to Yangon where some of them intended to stay for work and others planned to sail to Malaysia.
Myo Min Tun from the General Administration Department of Ngayokekaung township said the Rohingya, who are prohibited from traveling outside certain areas without official permission, could be charged.
“Currently, the top management decision is to transport them to Ayeyarwady region’s capital Pathein after the investigation,” he said. “We don’t know the laws they have broken or how they will be charged.”
“Depending on the investigation, the Immigration Department will decide,” he said. “With the rest of the procedures, the Myanmar police force will handle them according to law.”
RFA was unable to reach Ayeyarwaddy region social welfare minister Hla Myat Thwe, Colonel Kyaw Swar Hlaing, minister for security and border affairs, or immigration and human resources minister Soe Win for comment.
Various hardships
Authorities in Rakhine state restrict the movement of most of the stateless Rohingya, who are considered illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and denied citizenship and access to basic rights and services. Those who need to travel must submit requests, even in times of emergencies.
The detained Rohingya said a total of 44 people were aboard the boat when they departed Sittwe, though only 30 of them disembarked after authorities met them at a jetty to investigate.
Tin Hlaing, a Muslim from Thae Chaung village, said the detained Rohingya had left Sittwe three days ago, and that their family members are now worried about their safety.
“Their family members are now gravely concerned about them,” he told RFA, adding that the Rohingya who left the Rakhine villages were seeking a better life in Yangon or elsewhere.
“They are going through various hardships with a scarcity of job opportunities and restrictions on their movements,” he said. “As a result, they were seeking ways to find a better future. These people planned to travel to Yangon to make a better living. Most of them intended to go abroad later.”
Tin Hlaing said others tried to stop the group from leaving, but they refused to listen.
“They didn’t accept our suggestions because they felt the pressure of their hardship and joblessness,” he said.
A brutal military-led campaign of violence targeting the Rohingya in Rakhine state in 2017 left thousands dead and drove more than 740,000 others across the border to Bangladesh where they now reside in sprawling displacement camps. An estimated 600,000 still live in the state where some are confined to internally displaced persons (IDP) camps.
The crackdown was in response to deadly attacks on police outposts by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), a Muslim militant group that conducted the armed assault on the same day that a commission headed by former U.N. chief Kofi Annan that called for an end to restrictions on the Rohingya minority in Rakhine state.
But Rohingya leaders say that the civilian-led National League for Democracy (NLD) government has made almost no progress on implementing the commission’s recommendations that the Rohingya be granted basic rights, such as access to health care and education, citizenship, and free movement.
First step to citizenship
Rakhine state government spokesman Win Myint said he had no information about the detained Muslims, but that officials were issuing National Verification Cards (NVCs) to Rohingya who qualify for them as the first step to attaining Myanmar citizenship.
Many Rohingya oppose the NVCs because they stigmatize the Muslim ethnic group.
“They can apply for citizenship only after they receive the NVC cards, Win Myint said. “After an assessment, we will grant citizenship to people who qualify to become citizens, [and] we will issue different ID cards to those who don’t qualify.”
Rohingya eligible for citizenship will have the right to free movement, he added.
Win Myat Aye, Myanmar’s minister for social welfare, relief, and resettlement, and vice chairman of the government’s Union Enterprise for Humanitarian Assistance, Resettlement, and Development in Rakhine (UEHRD), was not available for comment.
Myanmar and Bangladesh have tried twice to repatriate Rohingya refugees who fled during the 2017 crackdown, but their efforts failed after no one showed up at the border for re-entry processing.
Most of the refugees have said that they will not return to Rakhine state unless the government can guarantee their safety, grant them citizenship rights, and allow them access to basic services.
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Senior US official issues strong new warning to Myanmar on Rohingya amid growing concern about refugees' future

In an interview with ABC News, USAID Administrator Mark Green says Myanmar is not on the right path over how it treats Rohingya Muslims.
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Senior US official issues strong new warning to Myanmar on Rohingya amid growing concern about refugees' future
Sep 27, 2019, 4:05 AM ET
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The United States' top official for foreign aid issued a firm and emotional warning Thursday to Myanmar about the lack of progress over how it treats the Rohingya and other ethnic minority groups.
Two years after violent attacks by Myanmar security forces and local militias against the Muslim ethnic minority killed thousands and sent more than 750,000 across the border as refugees, little has changed on the ground in Myanmar's northwest Rakhine state. Critics say it's because the U.S., the United Nations and others have not done enough to pressure the government.

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"They're not on the right path and a democratic journey, and I worry a great deal," Mark Green, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, told ABC News in an interview.
(MORE: One year later, no end in sight for Rohingya crisis as enormous needs remain unmet)
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A Rohingya refugee bathes, as a girl waits to fill water from a hand pump at Kutupalong refugee camp, a ramshackle sprawl of camps built amid low rolling hills and endless monsoon-season mud, in Bangladesh, Aug. 22, 2018.more +
Myanmar, sometimes still known by its former name Burma, has been accused of genocide by the U.N., which issued a detailed report last year on the campaign to kill, rape, and torture Rohingya, drive them from their homes, and destroy their towns and villages. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a similar report by American investigators with damning, graphic details in September 2018, but the U.S. stopped short of calling it genocide and instead labeled it ethnic cleansing.

Myanmar denies it has carried out a genocide, instead saying the attacks against Rohingya were about countering terrorism.
(MORE: Rohingya refugees say they would choose death over repatriation to Myanmar)
In the last year, it has negotiated with neighboring Bangladesh to begin returning back across the border some of the nearly 1 million Rohingya refugees living in squalid conditions. But nearly none have volunteered to go, with conditions in Myanmar still dangerous and the government refusing to guarantee protections, a return to their land, or even citizenship.
A U.N.-appointed investigative team reported last week that the same violent conditions exist.
"There is a strong inference of genocidal intent on the part of [Myanmar's government], there is a serious risk that genocidal actions may recur, and Myanmar is failing in its obligation to prevent genocide, to investigate genocide and to enact effective legislation criminalizing and punishing genocide," the report found.
(MORE: US, aid groups warn against forced return of Rohingya refugees)
With enormous strain on its poor local communities, Bangladesh announced Thursday it will begin to build barbed-wired fences around Rohingya refugee camps to stop their expansion, according to the Associated Press. There are also growing concerns about unrest in the camps and the potential for refugees to be radicalized or turn to criminal activity.
"I'm painfully aware" of Myanmar's lack of progress, said Green, a former U.S. ambassador to Tanzania and Republican congressman.
"It is less than satisfactory," he added diplomatically.
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During this year's U.N. General Assembly, however, there was little focus on the issue, and the U.N. Security Council has never voted on a resolution on the August 2017 violence. On Tuesday, Bangladesh convened a high-level meeting with Myanmar, China, and others, and the country's prime minister Sheikh Hasina will address the General Assembly on Friday and advocate for a way forward.
It's unclear if anyone from the U.S. attended the Bangladesh event, and Pompeo did not meet his Myanmar counterpart this week -- although a senior State Department official said that was not meant as a message. President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Pompeo, and U.S. ambassador-at-large for religious freedom Sam Brownback all did not mention the Rohingya in their addresses on the importance of religious freedom, despite the persecution of the Muslim minority for its faith.
(MORE: After damning UN report, US still not ready to designate Rohingya crisis 'genocide')
Green declined to say whether the Trump administration needed to do more to pressure Myanmar's leadership, which is split between civilian and military power. After 23 years of military junta rule, the country began to transition to a democracy in 2011 with the first free elections in 2015, but the military still retains tremendous power. In 2016, long-time democratic activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi became the head of government, but she's been supportive of expelling the Rohingya, sparking international outcry.
(MORE: Congress steps in, once more, to fill Trump's silence on human rights in Myanmar)
"They have stopped the democratic journey," said Green. "It is not continuing as long as you have Rohingya and others who are denied their most basic rights, and so we need to be firm in that message all the time, and consistent."
The messages from Pompeo and the U.S. have been "firm and clear," he argued, but many U.S. officials are afraid of pushing too hard and provoking a backlash against civilian rule or driving Myanmar into China's orbit.
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To that end, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Manisha Singh traveled to Myanmar in August to promote economic exchange, but her visit came just days after the U.N.-appointed investigative team reported that the military has deep business ties, which "substantially enhances its ability to carry out gross violations of human rights with impunity." Before the trip, human rights groups wrote Singh a letter expressing alarm that U.S. investment could "support, directly or otherwise, the military, or exacerbate conflict, and undermine efforts to promote accountability and conditions for the safe, dignified and voluntary return of displaced persons."
The U.S. announced Tuesday that it would provide an additional $127 million in assistance to Rohingya in Bangladesh and those remaining in Myanmar, as well as the local Bangladeshi communities near the refugee camps in the country's Cox's Bazar district. But "the United States cannot meet the crisis' tremendous funding needs alone," warned USAID spokesperson Pooja Jhunjhunwala.
(MORE: A tour through the 'floating island' that 100,000 Rohingya refugees may have to call home)
For Green, who has traveled to Cox's Bazar and northwest Myanmar, addressing Rohingya's dire needs is emotional.
"I don't know that I have seen a greater level of despair than in the eyes of Rohingya -- young parents, near Sittwe in Burma, those who were left behind. I'll never forget this: A young Rohingya father looked me in the eyes and said, 'There are no teachers, my kids can't go to school. We don't have a mosque, so we can't worship. I'm not allowed to leave without written permission, which I never get. And the only food I've got is what you give me. What do I tell my kids?'"
Green said he had no answer to that. "How do you respond?" he said.
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Philippines votes against UN resolution on Rohingya crisis

MANILA—The Philippines has voted against a United Nations (UN) resolution that seeks to end human rights abuses of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar.
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Rohingya refugees gather at a market inside a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh on March 7, 2019. Mohammad Ponir Hossain, Reuters/File
MANILA—The Philippines has voted against a United Nations (UN) resolution that seeks to end human rights abuses of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar.
Only the Philippines and China opposed the resolution, which was adopted during the 42nd regular session of UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, Switzerland Thursday.

A total of 37 member states voted in favor of the resolution, which calls upon Myanmar to ensure the protection of the human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities.
Angola, Cameroon, Congo, India, Japan, Nepal and Ukraine abstained from voting.
The 6-page resolution "expresses grave concern at continuing reports of serious human rights violations and abuses in Myanmar, including against Rohingya Muslims and other minorities."
These include arbitrary arrests, torture, forced labor, socioeconomic exploitation, the forced displacement of more than a million Rohingya Muslims to Bangladesh and sexual and gender-based violence against women and children, among others.
The resolution urges Myanmar "to take concrete steps towards the creation of a conducive environment for the voluntary safe, dignified and sustainable return of the forcibly displaced Rohingya residing in Bangladesh."
It also encourages the international community "to continue to assist Bangladesh in the provision of humanitarian assistance to forcibly displaced Rohingya Muslims and other minorities until their return to their places of origin in Myanmar."
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who remain inside Myanmar face systematic persecution and are living under the threat of genocide, a UN fact-finding mission had said.
Myanmar security forces are accused of killings, gang rape and arson during a crackdown that drove more than 730,000 people to flee western Rakhine state for neighbouring Bangladesh after attacks on police posts by Rohingya insurgents in August 2017.
Some 600,000 Rohingya are living in "deplorable" conditions in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, subject to restrictions on movement that touch almost every aspect of their lives, the UN report said.
In Nov. 2017, the Philippines rejected a UN draft resolution on the human rights situation in Myanmar.
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. had said the country should have abstained from voting the draft text, which urges Myanmar to grant full citizenship rights to Rohingya Muslims, who are treated by Buddhists as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
He had said that voting in favor of the draft resolution would "kill" the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), where Myanmar is a member.—With a report from Reuters
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