Arakan Watch, September 1, 2023:
The United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, Dr. Volker Turk has described the Persecutions against Muslim Rohingya minority in Burma in Geneva as follow that “Six years ago this week, #Myanmar’s military initiated its latest brutal campaign in a decades-long persecution of the #Rohingya Muslim minority in Rakhine State.
In what has been alleged to be a genocidal operation against the Rohingya, some 10,000 men, women, boys, girls, and newborns were killed, over 300 villages destroyed and over 700,000 fled to Bangladesh within a short period of time.
My most fervent wish is for them to be able to return to their homes in dignity, in freedom and properly recognised as part of the diversity of Myanmar’s population. Their human rights must be fully respected and their security guaranteed.”
– United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner Volker Türk. ##
