GENEVA: Muslim Rohingya continue to escape Myanmar's Rakhine state, many attesting about violence, persecution, killings and burning in their properties, the United Nations human rights chief mentioned on Wednesday.
So far this 12 months, 11,432 have arrived in Bangladesh, the place more than 700,000 have fled since an August 2017 army crackdown in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein mentioned.
"No amount of rhetoric can whitewash these facts. People are still fleeing persecution in Rakhine - and are even willing to risk dying at sea to escape," Zeid advised the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Many Rohingya refugees additionally document being confused by way of Myanmar authorities to simply accept a national verification card that claims they need to follow for citizenship, he mentioned.
The citizenship issue is at the core of discussions on their standing, Zeid mentioned, including that the cards "mark the Rohingya as non-citizens, in keeping with the government's characterisation of them as foreigners in their own homeland".
Authorities in mainly Buddhist Myanmar deny wearing out huge scale human rights abuses. Authorities say a crackdown in Rakhine is a vital reaction to violence by way of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) terrorist crew, which attacked Myanmar safety posts.
Kyaw Moe Tun, director-general of Myanmar's overseas ministry, mentioned a best precedence for his government used to be to discover a "sustainable solution" in Rakhine. It had agreed with Bangladesh in January 2018 that repatriation of refugees could be completed within two years, he mentioned, with out the use of the phrase Rohingya.
He mentioned that Zeid's document contained information that used to be "distorted or exaggerated".
"The root cause of the tragedy was terrorism and terrorism cannot be condoned under any circumstance," Kyaw mentioned.
So far this 12 months, 11,432 have arrived in Bangladesh, the place more than 700,000 have fled since an August 2017 army crackdown in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein mentioned.
"No amount of rhetoric can whitewash these facts. People are still fleeing persecution in Rakhine - and are even willing to risk dying at sea to escape," Zeid advised the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Many Rohingya refugees additionally document being confused by way of Myanmar authorities to simply accept a national verification card that claims they need to follow for citizenship, he mentioned.
The citizenship issue is at the core of discussions on their standing, Zeid mentioned, including that the cards "mark the Rohingya as non-citizens, in keeping with the government's characterisation of them as foreigners in their own homeland".
Authorities in mainly Buddhist Myanmar deny wearing out huge scale human rights abuses. Authorities say a crackdown in Rakhine is a vital reaction to violence by way of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) terrorist crew, which attacked Myanmar safety posts.
Kyaw Moe Tun, director-general of Myanmar's overseas ministry, mentioned a best precedence for his government used to be to discover a "sustainable solution" in Rakhine. It had agreed with Bangladesh in January 2018 that repatriation of refugees could be completed within two years, he mentioned, with out the use of the phrase Rohingya.
He mentioned that Zeid's document contained information that used to be "distorted or exaggerated".
"The root cause of the tragedy was terrorism and terrorism cannot be condoned under any circumstance," Kyaw mentioned.
Rohingya continue to flee violence, persecution in Myanmar: UN rights chief
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