Arakan News Agency
Sweden asked the UN Security Council to hold a new session on the situation of the Rohingya Muslims in Arakan.
This came in a statement published by the Swedish Foreign Minister, Margot Wallström, through her account on “Facebook”
The minister added that Sweden had asked the UN Security Council to hold a new session to find out the latest developments in the situation in Myanmar.
She noted that the Security Council will soon hold a hearing to review the situation of the asylum seekers of Rohingya Muslims and the possibility of returning home.
Sweden was actively working as a temporary member of the Security Council, drawing attention to the Myanmar issue.
She recalled that her country had earlier presented the Security Council with the results of its contacts in Myanmar last autumn.
The crimes of the Myanmar Army and the extremist Buddhist militias supporting the army against the Rohingya in the Arakan province (west), some 826,000 years ago, have led to neighboring Bangladesh.
Of these, 656,000 have fled since August 25, according to the United Nations, which warned tens of thousands of them were affected by the wind Bangladesh.
According to the international organization Doctors Without Borders, at least 9,000 Rohingya people were killed between 25 August and 24 September 2017.
