- Thursday, April 25, 2024
By: Eastern Eye Staff
ROHINGYA refugees who return to Myanmar will be safe as long as they stay in the model villages built for them, the country’s army chief has said, renewing fears they will be kept in settlements indefinitely. Some 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled Buddhist-majority Myanmar to Bangladesh after the military launched a brutal crackdown on insurgents in August that the US and the UN called ethnic cleansing. Myanmat denies the allegation. The country’s powerful army chief Min Aung Hlaing told a visiting delegation from the UN Security Council in the capital Naypyidaw on April 30: “There is no need to be worried…
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