MENAFN
Author:
Simon P. Watmough
Date 7/10/2019 (MENAFN - The Conversation) The emerging humanitarian crisis that has been rocking Myanmar - where an estimated 370,000 Rohingyahave been forced out of the country– has prompted broadinternational condemnation . But so far it has translated intolittle concrete action .
United Nations (UN) human rights chief Zeid Raad Al Hussein has called the Rohingya's plight a'textbook example of ethnic cleansing'following a similarstatement from UN Secretary General António Guterres . While Western countries have been slow and hesitant to respond, leaders of Muslim-majority countries – particularly Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Pakistan – have sought to place as much international pressure as possible onthe Myanmar government .