The UN Human Rights Council has described the violence following which over 430,000 Rohingyas forced to flee into Bangladesh as ‘textbook example of ethnic cleansing’. “It is genocide,” the independent global network of experts, justice advocates and organisations said in a statement, calling upon the international community and the neighbouring countries to take actions. “We seek an immediate end to this deepening humanitarian catastrophe, acknowledgement of the rights of the Rohingyas and accountability for the international crimes which have been, and are being, committed against them”. They called on the Myanmar authorities “pay heed to international opinion and immediately to stop the persecution of Rohingyas, instruct its security forces to exercise restraint, recognise the Rohingyas as an ethnic group." It also demanded the repatriation of the Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh and elsewhere, lift long-standing restrictions on the community and grant all Rohingyas their full citizenship rights that they deserve”.

Source: bd News24 September 24, 2017 13:30 UTC