Burma is accused of ‘textbook’ ethnic cleansing by the UN as the number of Rohingya Muslims fleeing for Bangladesh tops 300,000

‘The situation in Burma is a ‘textbook example of ethnic cleansing’, the United Nations rights chief said yesterday, as the number of Rohingya Muslims fleeing the country for Bangladesh topped 300,000.
The UN warning came as it emerged the Dalai Lama wrote to de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi urging her to find a peaceful solution to the crisis in the mainly Buddhist country.
The Rohingya, a stateless Muslim minority, have faced decades of persecution in Burma where they are regarded as illegal immigrants.
But since the latest upsurge in violence on August 25, hundreds of thousands have flooded across the border into Bangladesh bringing stories of entire villages burned to the ground by Buddhist mobs and Burma troops.
On Monday the UN human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein accused Burma of waging a ‘systematic attack’ on the Rohingya and warned that ‘ethnic cleansing’ seemed to be under way.’
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