MYANMAR TALKS
Tillerson to urge military to end Rohingya crisis
Yangon — US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will stress the need to halt violence and stabilise Rakhine State when he meets the head of Myanmar’s military on Wednesday in a bid to ease the Rohingya refugee crisis, a senior state department official said. More than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh since late August, driven out by a counterinsurgency clearance operation by Myanmar forces in Rakhine. A top UN official has called the operation a textbook case of "ethnic cleansing". Attending an East Asia summit in Manila on Tuesday, Tillerson met Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whose less than two-year-old civilian administration shares power with the military, but has no control over its generals. He will meet Suu Kyi again in the Myanmar capital of Naypyidaw on Wednesday and hold separate talks with the head of the armed forces, Gen Min Aung Hlaing.
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