Myanmar has not stopped its ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people in Rakhine state, UN's assistant secretary-general for human rights, Andrew Gilmour, said. "The ethnic cleansing of Rohingya from Myanmar continues...I don't think we can draw any other conclusion from what I have seen and heard... The nature of the violence has changed from the frenzied blood-letting and mass rape of last year to a lower intensity campaign of terror and forced starvation," Mr Gilmour said.
The UN envoy said it was "inconceivable" for any Rohingya to return to Rakhine state in the near future in a "safe, dignified and sustainable" way. The government of Myanmar is busy telling the world that it is ready to receive Rohingya returnees, while at the same time its forces are continuing to drive them into Bangladesh," Mr Gilmour said.
The UN envoy said it was "inconceivable" for any Rohingya to return to Rakhine state in the near future in a "safe, dignified and sustainable" way. The government of Myanmar is busy telling the world that it is ready to receive Rohingya returnees, while at the same time its forces are continuing to drive them into Bangladesh," Mr Gilmour said.
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