UN, Asean urged to send team to Rakhine
- Published: 15 Jun 2012 at 00.00
- Newspaper section: News
International and Bangkok-based Myanmar rights activists called on the United Nations and Asean to send an independent fact-finding team into Rakhine as the sectarian conflict in the country's western state worsens.
Describing the violence as a possible ''genocide'' against the Rohingyas, a Western rights activist told a seminar at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand on Wednesday night the international community could no longer sit by and let the situation subside by itself.
The international community, particularly UN representatives should intervene before more hatred spread over the whole country, said Debbie Stothard, Alternative Asean Network on Burma (Altsean-Burma) coordinator and deputy secretary-general of the International Federation for Human Rights.
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