Arakan News Agency
International pressure on Burma escalated as the humanitarian situation worsened for 400,000 Rohingyas, those fled to Bangladesh while the United Nations did not rule out the “worst case scenario.”
“We have to support Prime Minister Aung San Suu Kyi in her leadership, but we have to say very clearly to the military” that “This is unacceptable.” US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told a joint press conference with his British counterpart Boris Johnson in London.
“This violence should be stopped. This persecution should be stopped. Many describe the situation as ethnic cleansing. ”
“What is happening in Burma is a shocking disaster,” said European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. “As long as there is a new attempt to eradicate entire ethnicities.”
In a decision taken at a complete session in Strasbourg, the European Parliament on Thursday expressed “grave concern at the seriousness and increasing scale of human rights violations, including assassinations and violent confrontations, the destruction of civilian property and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of civilians” in Myanmar.
Johnson called on the Myanmar leader to use her “moral authority” to defend the Rohingya issue.
