MANILA: Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi today delivered a stinging rebuke of the inhumane treatment inflicted on the Rohingya community in Myanmar. Addressing the second Asean Ministerial Meeting on Radicalisation and Violent Extremism (AMMRVE) at the Conrad Hotel here, Zahid questioned Myanmar's blockade of humanitarian aid by international organisations from being delivered to the Rohingya. "Myanmar's security forces are killing even women and children without pity. Malaysia has adopted a tough stance on the violence inflicted on Myanmar's Rohingya community on the Rakhine State. More than 420,000 members of the Muslim minority Rohingya have fled Myanmar for the safety of neighbouring Bangladesh.

Source: New Strait Times September 21, 2017 05:03 UTC