{"id":4794,"date":"2017-09-24T06:12:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T06:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/4794-seven-countries-urge-unsc-meeting-on-myanmar-violence-against-rohingyas\/"},"modified":"2017-09-24T06:12:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T06:12:56","slug":"seven-countries-urge-unsc-meeting-on-myanmar-violence-against-rohingyas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/4794-seven-countries-urge-unsc-meeting-on-myanmar-violence-against-rohingyas\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven countries urge UNSC meeting on Myanmar violence against Rohingyas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven countries have called on the UN Security Council to convene a meeting to discuss the ongoing atrocities against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>Seven countries have called on the UN Security Council to convene a meeting to discuss the ongoing atrocities against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.<\/h4>\n<h4>According to a request seen by AFP on Friday, France, Britain, the US, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Senegal and Sweden asked UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to brief the Security Council on Myanmar&#8217;s military campaign against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state.<\/h4>\n<h4>The Security Council is holding consultations to set a time for the meeting, the Ethiopian presidency of the council said.<\/h4>\n<h4>Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar\u2019s Rakhine have been subject to systematic persecution and violence at the hands of the military and Buddhist mobs for decades.<\/h4>\n<h4>The religious minority has been subject to an escalated campaign of horrific violence since late last year, when the military laid siege to Rakhine. 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