US Ambassador Nikki Haley denounced Myanmar’s government Tuesday for continuing to make life for Rohingya Muslims “a death sentence,” citing the reporting of mass graves by The Associated Press and other news organizations. Haley said only Kadir and two friends survived, and six days later he found teammates partially buried in mass graves — reportedly among five mass graves. Myanmar’s government “regularly denies the existence of massacres and mass graves and claims to be fighting ’terrorists,’” Haley said. Buddhist-majority Myanmar doesn’t recognize the Rohingya as an ethnic group, insisting they are Bengali migrants from Bangladesh living illegally in the country. Myanmar Ambassador Hau Do Suan told the council that AP and BBC reports of mass graves in Gu Dar Pyin were investigated by a 17-member team.

Source: Egypt Independent February 14, 2018 08:26 UTC