Pressure Rises at U.N. on Myanmar Over Rohingya Crisis<br />Myanmar’s outreach to Bangladesh, he said, "gives the lie to the assertion<br />that there is a policy of ethnic cleansing on our part." Hours before the Security Council meeting, officials in Myanmar abruptly postponed a planned visit by representatives of United Nations aid agencies and diplomats to Rakhine State.<br />Mr. Guterres, who led United Nations refugee operations for 10 years, demanded an immediate halt to military operations by Myanmar’s security forces against Rohingya civilians<br />and called for unfettered access by aid groups to areas that have been cut off.<br />In a statement on Thursday, aid groups, including Oxfam<br />and Save the Children, called on the Myanmar government to allow free access to Rakhine so they could "provide lifesaving humanitarian assistance." Officials associated with the office of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s de facto leader, have accused international aid groups of abetting Rohingya militants.<br />28, 2017<br />Myanmar’s authorities came under intensifying pressure on Thursday over the Rohingya refugee crisis, with the United Nations secretary general calling it a "human rights nightmare"<br />that has driven more than a half-million civilians into Bangladesh in the past month.
