The violence against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Burma is “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing” as refugees continue to pour over the border into neighbouring Bangladesh, the UN’s human rights chief said this morning. Addressing the UN human rights council in Geneva, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein warned that, “another brutal security operation is underway” in Burma’s Rakhine state, with the violence “apparently on a far greater scale”. At the same time, a UN spokesman reported that the number of Rohingya fleeing attacks has now reached 313,000 in a little over two weeks. Amid reports of Buddhist mobs joining Burmese soldiers in torching Rohingya villages in Rakhine, the Dalai Lama added his voice to condemn the violence over the weekend. The Tibetan spiritual leader stressed that…

Source: The Times September 11, 2017 11:03 UTC