International community vows to put more pressure on Myanmar for Rohingya repatriation
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Embassies of 13 countries and the European Union delegation in Bangladesh in a joint statement on Thursday said that their countries would continue pressure on Myanmar to solve the Rohingya crisis and stop human rights violations under the military junta in the Buddhist majority state.
The joint statement by the diplomatic offices of the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, Denmark, France, German, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland was issued on the day when the persecuted Rohingya observed the 5th anniversary of the exodus.
Rohingya observe Aug. 25 as a genocide day as the Myanmar military launched a brutal killing operation on this day in 2017, forcing around 750,000 Rohingya to flee to Bangladesh within a couple of days.
The merciless military clampdown has been marked as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing and genocide” by the world.
Bangladesh is currently hosting more than 1.2 million Rohingya, most of whom fled a brutal military crackdown in their home country of Myanmar’s Rakhine state in August 2017.
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