Myanmar denounces UN's 🌐 'ethnic cleansing' suggestion

Myanmar denounced the suggestion by the UN human rights chief that its treatment of Rohingya Muslims amounts to "ethnic cleansing".

But many of those who have fled say troops responded to attacks by Rohingya militants on 25 August with a brutal campaign of violence and village burnings aimed at driving them out.

On Monday, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Raad Al Hussein, urged Myanmar to end the "cruel military operation", saying that it seemed "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing".

"My personal message is very clear, that they [Myanmar] should consider this situation with the eyes of humanity," Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told the BBC after visiting the Kutupalong camp.

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