Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar Is ‘Ethnic Cleansing,’ U.N. Rights Chief Says<br />11, 2017<br />GENEVA — The United Nations’ top human rights official accused Myanmar on Monday of carrying out "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing"<br />against Rohingya Muslims, hundreds of thousands of whom have crossed into Bangladesh since late August to escape a military crackdown.<br />United Nations said that The situation seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing,<br />In his address on Monday, Mr. al-Hussein said he was appalled by reports that Myanmar’s military has placed mines along the border with Bangladesh.<br />Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, said the military’s "brutal" security campaign was in clear violation of international law,<br />and cited what he called refugees’ consistent accounts of widespread extrajudicial killings, rape and other atrocities.<br />Mr. al-Hussein said the crackdown "resembles a cynical ploy to forcibly transfer large numbers of people without possibility of return," noting<br />that Myanmar had progressively stripped its Rohingya minority of civil and political rights for decades.<br />Myanmar’s government has refused to cooperate with the mission and has said it will not allow members of the group into the country.<br />On Friday, the Dalai Lama became the latest Nobel Peace Prize laureate to raise the issue of her silence, following statements from Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa<br />and the rights advocate Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan, both of whom called on Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi to take action.<br />Amnesty International said on Sunday that it had documented "what seems to be targeted<br />use of land mines" by Myanmar’s security forces at crossing points used by refugees.
