NAYPYITAW, Myanmar — Ambassadors from the U.N. Security Council probing Myanmar’s crisis over its ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority met Monday with the country’s leader and military chief after visiting Bangladesh, where about 700,000 Rohingya who fled military-led violence live in refugee camps. The 15-member delegation co-led by Security Council President Gustavo Meza-Cuadra met in Myanmar’s capital with State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and military commander Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing. He said ambassadors and deputy ambassadors from the 15 Security Council nations would be taken to refugee reception centres as well as villages in northern Rakhine. The military has been accused of massive human rights violations — including rape, killing, torture and the burning of Rohingya homes — that U.N. and U.S. officials have called ethnic cleansing. The U.N. human rights chief, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein has insisted that the possibility of genocide against the Rohingya was real.

Source: National Post April 30, 2018 08:26 UTC