Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 24th May. UN Special Rapporteur monitoring human rights in Myanmar, Tom Andrews on Thursday said that thousands of innocent Rohingya lives will be lost if the international community fails to respond to “ominous signs” of another bloodbath in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.
Tom Andrews said the world “seems to be failing a desperate people in their hour of peril while a hate-driven unnatural disaster unfolds in real time”.
UN human rights chief described as a “text book example of ethnic cleansing” as thousands of Rohingya fled systematic attacks by Burmese security forces in 2017, crossing the border into Bangladesh.
Mr. Andrews said there were alarming and credible reports of killings, enforced disappearances and widespread arson across northern Rakhine in recent days, warranting an “immediate emergency response” by the international community.
He noted that multiple armed groups operating in Rakhine as insurgents battle forces of the military junta for control, he called on all combatants to observe international humanitarian law.
“Mechanisms to provide emergency humanitarian aid must be immediately established and all parties must support the robust infusion of aid into Rakhine,” Mr. Andrews added.
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