The
UN has announced that it is on “full alert” for a mass exodus of
Rohingya Muslims as reports show a sharp spike of them fleeing
Myanmar.
“We’re back in a situation
of full alert as far as influxes are concerned. It is a big increase
to see 11,000,” said the spokesman for the UN High Commissioner
for Refugees (UNHCR), Adrian Edwards, on Tuesday.
Myanmar’s army renewed its
bloody crackdown on the ethnic minority population in August, with
numerous documented incidents of massacre and rape of Muslim men and
women.
Authorities in Myanmar, led by de
facto leader Aug San Suu Kyi, have been tightly controlling access to
Rakhine since August, when purported attacks by Rohingya fighters
prompted a brutal military response that has forced over 515,000
Rohingya to flee for Bangladesh. The crackdown, backed by radical
Buddhist monks, has left scores of Rohingya villages torched and
completely destroyed.
“We have had big numbers
coming across by the day over the six weeks of this emergency. So we
are back up to approaching some of those peak arrivals. Clearly we
have to be prepared for more arrivals,” Edwards added.
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