UNGA president ‘deeply concerned’ for Myanmar’s Rohingya

ARAB NEWS
EPHREM KOSSAIFY
February 03, 2021

Soldiers keep watch near a guesthouse, where members of parliament reside, in the country's capital Naypyidaw on February 3, 2021. (AFP)

• Bozkir is looking to convene a briefing by the special envoy to Myanmar for all member states, in line with a UNGA resolution
• Special Envoy Christine Schraner Burgener warned of impending humanitarian consequences

NEW YORK: Volkan Bozkir, president of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), condemned the military coup in Myanmar and called for “unrestricted humanitarian access to Rakhine state and other parts of the country.”

The history of the persecution of Myanmar’s Rohingya

THE CONVERSATION
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Engy Abdelkader

Rutgers University

September 21, 2017

 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh waiting to receive aid. Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters

Some 420,000 Rohingya Muslims, a religious and ethnic minority community in Myanmar, have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since August this year.

The United Nations has called the Rohingya the world’s most persecuted minority group and described the atrocities by Myanmar’s authorities as “ethnic cleansing,” whereby one group removes another ethnic or religious community through violence.