Scenes in Rakhine ‘mirror 2017’, UN says

The humanitarian situation in Myanmar is worsening, the UN said yesterday, decrying scenes reminiscent of the 2017 atrocities committed against the Rohingya minority that some countries deemed a genocide.

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Rakhine State has been blockaded by Myanmar’s military as it battles ethnic fighters in a many-sided civil war that has consumed the country since the junta toppled the democratic government in a 2021 coup.

UN rights chief Volker Turk warned that both the military and local ethnic fighters from the Arakan Army “have acted with near complete impunity enabling the recurrence of violations in an endless cycle of suffering for the civilian population’.