Aid Workers Blocked from Myanmar’s Rakhine state: Haley
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley called on the government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to acknowledge that atrocities had been committed by the military.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley called on the government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to acknowledge that atrocities had been committed by the military.
Myanmar’s persistent denial of a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority is “preposterous,” Nikki Haley said carried by Reuters.
Addressing a meeting of the U.N. Security Council, Haley said Myanmar is “preventing access to Rakhine to anyone or any organization that might bear witness” to alleged atrocities against the mostly stateless group.
This comes as Independent media and aid workers have been blocked from northern parts of Myanmar’s Rakhine State since October 2016.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein has described the crisis as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing,” and said he couldn’t rule out “elements of genocide.”
Nearly 690,000 Rohingya have fled Rakhine for neighboring Bangladesh since August, when another round of violence erupted in the state.
