Why is the UN’s Response to Myanmar’s Rohingya Persecution so Powerless?

THE 
GLOBE POST
Max Pensky
July 11, 2019
Opinion

 In August 2017, Myanmar’s military launched 'area clearance operations' against the Rohingya in its western Rakhine Province, driving nearly three-quarters of a million citizens into neighboring Bangladesh. Photo: AFP

Recent reports about the United Nations’ response to Myanmar’s persecution of the Rohingya minority highlights just how deep the U.N.’s dysfunction has become. U.N. officials now openly worry that ongoing aid provision to internally displaced Rohingya civilians confined to squalid camps within Myanmar will have the unintended effect of “entrenching segregation,” effectively helping Myanmar in its efforts to isolate the Rohingya.