The Rohingya are being forgotten at the UN

ARAB NEWS
Dr. Azeem Ibrahim
October 03, 20

The Rohingya are at risk of becoming a permanently forgotten people (File/AFP)

 

 The annual UN General Assembly has once again come and gone. World leaders delivered lofty speeches about war, climate change, and human rights. Yet among the most acute humanitarian tragedies of our time, the plight of the Rohingya, there was little more than symbolic mention. The genocide that forced nearly a million Rohingya into Bangladesh, and the continued persecution of those still in Myanmar, risks being relegated to the margins of global concern.

Rohingya Muslims: Forgotten, downtrodden and now victims of religious cleansing

DAILY SABAH

AYŞE BETÜL BAL @bal_betul

ISTANBUL

Published 20.05.2019 

 In this photograph taken Aug. 28, 2018, an elderly Rohingya refugee Noor Aisha Khatun, who used to visit spiritual healers, sits inside the family shelter in Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh. (AP Photo) 

"To view opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundations of democracy."

Those were the exact words Aung San Suu Kyi, the de-facto leader of Burma, or what has been come to known as Myanmar, wrote in her book "Letters from Burma."