Rohingya Muslims in the village of Shwe Zarr as Myanmar policemen stand guard, near Maungdaw township in Rakhine state on Wednesday. Photo: AFPWashington: The United States has expressed concern about the crisis in Myanmar, urging authorities to allow humanitarian access to Rakhine state amid reports of violence against the Rohingya minority. “The United States is deeply concerned about the troubling situation in Burma’s northern Rakhine state,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters on Thursday. Nauert said US diplomats are in regular touch with Myanmar authorities but that Rakhine is “a difficult place to get information from, it’s difficult to get access to.”“Some of these areas are areas of open conflict, we can’t necessarily get in there,” she said. Nauert refused to address calls for international sanctions, saying, “We don’t want to get ahead of the conversations that we’re having.”

Source: Mint September 08, 2017 04:41 UTC