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Rohingya crisis needs international action: Rights activist

Wednesday, 11 July 2018 1:08 PM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 11 July 2018 1:11 PM ]

The government and army in Myanmar should be brought to justice for their crimes against the Rohingya Muslim minority, says an activist.

“We need action from international community, we need action from international court and those perpetrators of these systematic ethnic cleansing need to be brought to justice,” Massoud Shadjareh, head of the Islamic Human Rights Commission, told Press TV on Wednesday.

The army and the extremists have been allowed to kill, rape and set babies on fire and the result of that has been this exodus of people running away trying to save their lives, Shadjareh said.

In a write-up published in The Washington Post on Jul 10, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres acknowledged that Rohingya Muslims are victims of "ethnic cleansing" and the world has failed them.