Arakan News Agency
Ambassador of the United States for religious freedom Mr. David Saperstein expressed optimism that the new government in Myanmar is committed to democracy and the deployment of human rights despite the fact that Myanmar is still on the list of the world’s most repressive religious minorities.
Saperstein was speaking to reporters on Friday by telephone from Washington, he said he took enough time and was watching the situation before this positive attitude toward the newly elected government in Myanmar, and the Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi.
Saperstein said Myanmar still has a long way to go to get to democracy, particularly in the state of Arakan, where people are exposed to the human rights suffering.
The United Nations envoy to Myanmar Ms. Yanghee Lee in her latest visit to Myanmar in June, pointed out that the government’s response to calls for resolving the issue of Rohingya Muslims is listless and lacking in transparency in the verification of the citizenship process.
The Arakan State the main home of the Rohingya Muslims stateless people, who are considered illegitimate by the government, many of whom sought refuge in Bangladesh, Pakistan and other countries and displaced nearly 140 thousand people to the camps for displaced people in Akyab the capital of Arakan State since acts of deadly violence in 2012 by Buddhists.
