Rohingya Muslims Plead for Help at UN to Stop Killings in Myanmar

Rohingya Muslims plead for help at UN to stop killings in Myanmar

UNITED NATIONS -- Rohingya Muslims pleaded with the international community at the first United Nations high-level meeting on the plight of the ethnic minority to prevent the mass killings taking place in Myanmar and to help those in the persecuted group lead normal lives.

‘Where is justice for Rohingya?’: UN hears plea as drone strikes kill civilians in Myanmar’s Rakhine

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 1 — A Rohingya refugee who fled ethnic violence in Myanmar in 2017 described yesterday the endless cycle of violence and exile faced by the mostly Muslim minority, as the United Nations convened a special conference on their plight.Holding up a photograph of women and children killed in civilian clothing, Maung Sawyeddollah of the Rohingya Students Network told delegates the victims died in a drone strike by the Arakan Army o…

Rohingya Muslims plead for help at the UN to stop the killings in Myan

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Rohingya Muslims pleaded with the international community at the first United Nations high-level meeting on the plight of the ethnic minority to prevent the mass killings taking place in Myanmar and to help those in the persecuted group lead normal lives. “This is a historic occasion for Myanmar, but this is long overdue,” Wai Wai Nu, the Rohingya founder and executive director of the Women’s Peace Network-Myanmar, told min…

Rohingya Ask UN ‘Where is the Justice’ Amid Myanmar Violence, Aid Cuts - Clarion India

Rohingya speakers urge the UN not to forget about minorities from Myanmar’s Rakhine state, including those who remain and those who fled to refugee camps in neighbouring Bangladesh. Lyndal Rowlands NEW YORK – Members of the Rohingya community who fled violence in Myanmar have addressed a United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) conference seeking to bring attention to the suffering of the persecuted Muslim minority, as fighting continues in Myanma…