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The UK government has suspended financial aid to Myanmar’s military amid “ongoing
\nviolence” in the country, formerly known as Burma.
\nViolence in the Rakhine state has seen more than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims flee to
\nneighbouring Bangladesh.
\nThe Ministry of Defence said it had suspended \u00a3300,000 of funding until the current situation
\nwas resolved.
\nThe UN’s human rights chief has said the violence “seems [like] a textbook example of ethnic
\ncleansing”.
\nThe \u00a3300,000-a-year was used to fund educational courses for the country’s military.
\nBut an MoD spokesperson said: “In the light of the ongoing violence… and our deep concern
\nabout the human rights abuses that are taking place, we have decided to suspend the
\neducational courses provided to the Burmese military until there is an acceptable resolution to
\nthe current situation.”
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\nTales of horror from Myanmar
\nMyanmar general blames crisis on Rohingya
\nWho are the Rohingya group behind attacks?
\nThere have been reports that the state military have been burning down Rohingya villages.
\nEarlier Myanmar’s de facto leader, Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, said there
\nhad been “no conflicts” in the region since 5 September and there had been no “clearance
\noperations” for two weeks.
\nBut the BBC’s Jonathan Head, who is reporting from neighbouring Bangladesh, said he had
\nseen a village being burned on 7 September, and columns of smoke suggesting others had
\nsuffered a similar fate.
\nMs Suu Kyi has come under heavy criticism from the UN’s chief Antonio Guterres, who said
\nthe she has “a last chance” to halt the army offensive.
\nSpeaking to the BBC’s HARDtalk programme, the UN secretary general said it was clear that
\nMyanmar’s military “still have the upper hand” in the country.
\nAnd the UN’s human rights chief Zeid Raad Al Hussein said on 19 September that the
\nsecurity operation “seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing”, and called for an end to
\nthe “cruel military operation”.
\nHow did the violence start?
\nViolence in the region began on 25 August when Rohingya militants allegedly killed 12 people
\nin attacks on police posts.
\nThe attack was blamed on the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa).
\nSince then hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims – a stateless minority in the Buddhistmajority
\nstate Rakhine – have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh near the city of Cox’s Bazar.
\nRohingya’s claim that they are being forced out of their villages by the state’s military,
\nwhereas the state claims that the refugees and Muslim militants are burning their own homes.
\nRead more on what sparked the violence in Rakhine.
\nOn Monday Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said: “I have spoken to [Ms Suu Kyi] several
\ntimes since this whole disaster began, and it is barbaric what is happening to the Rohingya,
\nthere can be no doubt about it.
\n“I think, what everybody wants, we want the killing to stop, number one, and that’s a message
\nI’ve given her.”
\nAccess to the Rakhine region is restricted by the state, meaning that journalists are only
\nallowed into the area on government-controlled trips.
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\nIn a speech to Myanmar’s parliament on Tuesday, Ms Suu Kyi said Rakhine would allow
\nrefugees back in to the region, after a “process of verification”.
\nRohingya Muslims are referred to as Bengali Muslim’s by the government, and are denied
\ncitizenship and equal opportunities by the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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