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Theresa May condemns ‘what looks like ethnic cleansing’ of Muslim refugees in Myanmar
Theresa May has strongly condemned the crisis in Myanmar which ‘looks like ethnic cleansing’ of Muslims. Hundreds of thousands of refugees have poured over the border into Bangladesh, with harrowing stories of starvation, rape, and loss of their homes. The Rohingya people who live in western Rakhine state are a minority in the mainly Buddhist nation and are being driven out by a government which denies their right to citizenship. The country’s military and governing authorities ‘must take full responsibility’, Theresa May has said. She described images of young Rohingya children ’emaciated and pleading for help’ as ‘heartbreaking’.
A sick Rohingya refugee child lies on the ground after crossing the Naf river with an improvised raft as they are temporarily detained by Border Guard Bangladesh at Sabrang near Teknaf, Bangladesh November 10, 2017. Picture taken November 10, 2017. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain
She pledged that Britain would continue to play a ‘leading role’ to stop the violence in Rohingya villages which began in August, prompting more than 600,000 people to cross the border into Bangladesh. Addressing the Lord Mayor’s Banquet at the City of London’s Guildhall, Mrs May said the UK must ‘step up our efforts to respond to the desperate plight of Rohingyas – brought home to us again on our TV screens so graphically today, with heart-breaking images of young children emaciated and pleading for help’. She went on: ‘This is a major humanitarian crisis which looks like ethnic cleansing. And it is something for which the Burmese authorities – and especially the military – must take full responsibility.
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