Arakan News Agency
Myanmar beauty queen Shwe Eain Si says she was stripped of her title for speaking out against Rohingya.
Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims are a minority group that are largely shunned by Myanmar’s mostly Buddhist population. The country doesn’t consider them citizens, and rights groups say the Rohingya are often targets of police brutality.
In the graphic video posted on Facebook, Shwe Eain Si called ARSA “harbingers of terror and violence.” She went on to claim that reports of Rohingya oppression are part of a fabricated media campaign.
She now claims she lost her Miss Grand Myanmar title over the video. The company that rescinded the award denied this, saying the decision was made before she posted the video.
More than 500,000 Rohingya people have fled Myanmar to escape the violence and now reside in makeshift camps in Bangladesh.
The United Nations has also called out the Burmese government for what it said looked like “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.”
