French Pres. Macron Pulls No Punches: Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar Constitutes ‘Genocide’
SPOTLIGHT, 25 Sep 2017
The Japan Times – TRANSCEND Media Service
A Rohingya refugee boy jostles for aid in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Wednesday. | REUTERS
21 Sep 2017 – French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday [20 Sep] said attacks on Myanmar’s Rohingya minority amounted to “genocide.
France will work with other members of the U.N. Security Council for a condemnation of “this genocide which is unfolding, this ethnic cleansing,” Macron said in an interview with the French TV channel TMC.
Macron’s use of the word “genocide” marks his strongest verbal attack yet on the military drive against the Rohingya.
More than 420,000 members of the Muslim minority have fled Myanmar for the safety of neighboring Bangladesh.
French President Emmanuel Macron
“We must condemn the ethnic purification which is underway and act,” Macron said.
“Asking for the violence to end, asking for humanitarian access … progressively enables an escalation” under U.N. auspices, Macron said.
“When the U.N. issues a condemnation, there are consequences which can provide a framework for intervention under the U.N.,” Macron said.
Rohingya, who are predominantly Muslim, are reviled by many in Buddhist-majority Myanmar.
The U.N. human rights chief has described the systematic attacks against the Rohingya minority by the security forces as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing.”
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