WORLD leaders have rallied by taking a strong stance against the atrocities committed against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority group. Pence accused the Myanmar military of responding to militant attacks on government outposts “with terrible savagery, burning villages, driving the Rohingya from their homes”. She had announced that the UK would suspend the training of Myanmar military amid concerns about the treatment of the Rohingya. She told the UNGA that her government would suspend the training as well as stop defence engagements until military action against civilians in Rakhine State stopped. “We are very concerned about what is happening to the Rohingya people...the military action against them must stop.

Source: New Strait Times September 22, 2017 00:45 UTC