Myanmar pursues ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims: UN official

‘A high-ranking United Nations official says Myanmar authorities have stepped up persecution of Rohingya Muslims in the Southeast Asian country, and are actually conducting a campaign of “ethnic cleansing” against members of the community.
John McKissick, head of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees office in the southern Bangladeshi coastal resort town of Cox’s Bazar, said on Thursday that the Myanmar military and Border Guard Police have “engaged in collective punishment of the Rohingyas” since October 9, when gunmen attacked three police outposts in Maungdaw town in the western Rakhine State, and killed nine police officers.
He added that Myanmar security forces have been “killing men, shooting them, slaughtering children, raping women, burning and looting houses, forcing these people to cross the river” into neighboring Bangladesh.’
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