The UN says around 409,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled violence in Myanmar and are now in neighbouring Bangladesh, living in camps under dire conditions. The UN has described the violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar as ethnic cleansing - a term that describes an organised effort to rid an area of an ethnic group by displacement, deportation or killing
After a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims sparked allegations of ethnic cleansing, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said today her country does not fear international scrutiny.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj is at the 72nd annual United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session in New York. She held a triateral meeting with US and Japan and met foreign ministers of Denmark, Latvia, Bhutan and Tunisia. Swaraj is scheduled to address the UNGA on 23 September and head back home a day after her address.
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In their bid to express solidarity with Rohingya Muslims, over 100 students and teachers from the Central University of Jammu and Kashmir held a protest march in Srinagar on 7 September 2017.
Holding out placards emblazoned with “We stand with Muslims in Burma,” the group also questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s silence on the looming crisis.
