The deadly security operation in Myanmar's Rakhine state is apparently designed to rid the country of the Muslim Rohingya minority, UN rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein charged on Monday. "The current situation cannot yet be fully assessed, but the situation seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing," he told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. "I call on the government to end its current cruel military operation" and to stop discriminating against Rohingya, Zeid said. On Sunday, a Rohingya militant group called the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) declared a one-month ceasefire against Myanmar troops, but the appeal was rejected by the Myanmar government. "We have no policy to negotiate with terrorists," Zaw Htay, a director general in the State Counsellor's office, wrote on Twitter.

Source: The China Post September 11, 2017 20:15 UTC