UCA NEWS
UCA News reporter
August 13, 2021
Members of the internally displaced Rohingya community at a camp in Rakhine state. (Photo: AFP)
August 13, 2021
Diaspora group says deliberately withholding essential health care to Rohingya confirms genocidal charges.
Members of the internally displaced Rohingya community at a camp in Rakhine state. (Photo: AFP) A diaspora group based in London has decried the Myanmar junta’s plans to withhold Covid-19 vaccinations from hundreds of thousands of Rohingya inside crowded camps in Rakhine state.
“This is a continuation and escalation of the crimes against humanity, including genocide and ethnic cleansing, that have been carried out for decades against Rohingya people,” Tun Khin, president of the Burmese Rohingya Organization UK (BROUK), said in a statement on Aug. 12.
“This is a continuation and escalation of the crimes against humanity, including genocide and ethnic cleansing, that have been carried out for decades against Rohingya people,” Tun Khin, president of the Burmese Rohingya Organization UK (BROUK), said in a statement on Aug. 12.