Myanmar’s Rohingya are victims of apartheid, says Amnesty International
Yangon — Myanmar’s suffocating controls over its Rohingya population amount to "apartheid", Amnesty International said on Tuesday. Amnesty is investigating the root causes of a crisis that has sent 620,000 refugees fleeing to Bangladesh. Scenes of dispossessed Rohingya in Bangladeshi camps have provoked outrage around the world, as people who have escaped Rakhine state since August recount tales of murder, rape and arson at the hands of Myanmar troops. Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed in principle to repatriate some Rohingya but disagree over the details, with Myanmar’s army chief saying last week it was impossible to accept the number of refugees proposed by Dhaka. The Amnesty report details how years of persecution have led to the current crisis. A years-long "state-sponsored" campaign has restricted virtually all aspects of Rohingyas’ lives, the Amnesty study says, confining the Muslim minority to a "ghetto-like" existence in the mainly Buddhist country. The 100-page report, ba...
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