UN: Conditions in Myanmar ‘not conducive’ to Rohingya return

• Sarwar Alam
• 08 April, 2018

By: Sarwar Alam

Conditions in Myanmar’s crisis-hit northern Rakhine state are “not conducive” to bringing back Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh, a senior UN official said, despite Myanmar’s insistence that it is ready for returnees. Some 700,000 members of the Muslim minority have fled since August to escape a bloody military crackdown that has left a trail of torched villages in its wake and allegations of murder and rape at the hands of troops and vigilantes. The army in the mainly Buddhist nation denies the allegations and casts its campaign as a legitimate response to Rohingya militant attacks on August 25 that killed…

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