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SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Southeast Asian Foreign Ministers urged Myanmar to give the Rakhine State Commission on Violence Investigation a mandate to hold women accountable. officials, said Singapore Tuesday.
PHOTO FILE: Rohingya refugees are reflected in rainwater along a dike near rice fields after fleeing from Myanmar to get to Palang Khali, near Cox's Bazar, at Bangladesh, November 2, 2017. REUTERS / Hannah McKay / File Photo
The ministers, who met informally on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly last week, expressed serious concern over the violence, Singapore's Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said on Tuesday. Parliament, calling it a "man-made humanitarian disaster".
Over the past year, more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Buddhist-dominated Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh as a result of a military response to Rohingya insurgency attacks on security posts.
The United Nations has described Myanmar's actions as "ethnic cleansing", an accusation Myanmar rejects, accusing Rohingya "terrorists" of being the perpetrators of atrocities.
Report by John Geddie; Written by Jack Kim; Edited by Nick Macfie
