Aung San Suu Kyi Under More Pressure
Aung San Suu Kyi Under More Pressure
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DHAKA - Myanmar leader, Aung San Suu Kyi came under more pressure on Tuesday from countries with Muslim populations to halt violence against Rohingya Muslims that has sent nearly 125,000 of them fleeing over the border to Bangladesh in just over 10 days.
As reported Reuters, hundreds more exhausted Rohingya arriving on boats near the Bangladeshi border village of Shamlapur on Tuesday, suggesting the exodus was far from over.
Indonesian Foreign Minister, Retno Marsudi said on Tuesday the country is ready to ease the burden of Bangladesh in dealing with the Rohingya Muslims fleeing from Myanmar, but the help is likely to be only humanitarian, not financial.
“We will continue to discuss what sort of support Indonesia could make to ease the burden of the Bangladesh government,” Marsudi told a news conference after she met Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her counterpart Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali in Dhaka.
“This humanitarian crisis shall be ended. I want to repeat, this humanitarian crisis shall be ended”, she told a day after meetings in the Myanmar capital.
On Wednesday, Indonesia’s ambassador to Bangladesh will meet the foreign minister to discuss relief assistance, which she said will be more on the humanitarian side than monetary, she told Reuters on the sidelines of the brief press meeting.
The latest violence in Myanmar’s northwestern Rakhine state began on Aug. 25, when Rohingya insurgents attacked dozens of police posts and an army base. The ensuing clashes and a military counter-offensive have killed at least 400 people and triggered the exodus of villagers to Bangladesh.
The treatment of Buddhist-majority Myanmar’s roughly 1.1 million Muslim Rohingya is the biggest challenge facing Suu Kyi, who has been accused by Western critics of not speaking out for the minority that has long complained of persecution.
Myanmar says its security forces are fighting a legitimate campaign against “terrorists” responsible for a string of attacks on police posts and the army since last October.
Myanmar officials blamed Rohingya militants for the burning of homes and civilian deaths but rights monitors and Rohingya fleeing to neighboring Bangladesh say the Myanmar army is trying to force them out with a campaign of arson and killings.
As reported Reuters, hundreds more exhausted Rohingya arriving on boats near the Bangladeshi border village of Shamlapur on Tuesday, suggesting the exodus was far from over.
Indonesian Foreign Minister, Retno Marsudi said on Tuesday the country is ready to ease the burden of Bangladesh in dealing with the Rohingya Muslims fleeing from Myanmar, but the help is likely to be only humanitarian, not financial.
“We will continue to discuss what sort of support Indonesia could make to ease the burden of the Bangladesh government,” Marsudi told a news conference after she met Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her counterpart Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali in Dhaka.
“This humanitarian crisis shall be ended. I want to repeat, this humanitarian crisis shall be ended”, she told a day after meetings in the Myanmar capital.
On Wednesday, Indonesia’s ambassador to Bangladesh will meet the foreign minister to discuss relief assistance, which she said will be more on the humanitarian side than monetary, she told Reuters on the sidelines of the brief press meeting.
The latest violence in Myanmar’s northwestern Rakhine state began on Aug. 25, when Rohingya insurgents attacked dozens of police posts and an army base. The ensuing clashes and a military counter-offensive have killed at least 400 people and triggered the exodus of villagers to Bangladesh.
The treatment of Buddhist-majority Myanmar’s roughly 1.1 million Muslim Rohingya is the biggest challenge facing Suu Kyi, who has been accused by Western critics of not speaking out for the minority that has long complained of persecution.
Myanmar says its security forces are fighting a legitimate campaign against “terrorists” responsible for a string of attacks on police posts and the army since last October.
Myanmar officials blamed Rohingya militants for the burning of homes and civilian deaths but rights monitors and Rohingya fleeing to neighboring Bangladesh say the Myanmar army is trying to force them out with a campaign of arson and killings.
(rnz)
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