EU infighting must not weaken International response to ethnic cleansing in Myanmar

Rohingya refugees from Rakhine state in Myanmar walk along a path near Teknaf in Bangladesh on September 2, 2017. Around 400 people -- most of them Rohingya Muslims -- have died in violence searing through Myanmar's Rakhine state, the army chief's office said on September 1, with tens of thousands forced to flee across the border into Bangladesh. A further 20,000 Rohingya have massed along the Bangladeshi frontier, barred from entering the South Asian country, while scores of desperate people have drowned attempting to cross the Naf, a border river, in makeshift boats. / AFP PHOTO / Suzauddin RUBEL (Photo credit should read SUZAUDDIN RUBEL/AFP/Getty Images)

By Katharine Derderian, EU Human Rights Foreign Policy Expert, Amnesty International “When the military came, they started shooting at people, who got very scared and started running. I saw the … Continue reading EU infighting must not weaken International response to ethnic cleansing in Myanmar

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