UN Security Council to discuss Rohingya situation
The UN Security Council will hold an urgent meeting on Myanmar's Rohingya crisis, following warnings by the organisation's human rights chief that "ethnic cleansing" is taking place. Britain and Sweden requested Wednesday's meeting against the backdrop of a growing humanitarian crisis. Around 370,000 of Myanmar's minority Rohingya population have fled the country's western state of Rakhine into neighbouring Bangladesh in recent weeks, according to the UN, since disruption began on […]
