{"id":4899,"date":"2017-10-15T06:58:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T06:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/4899-unsc-must-press-myanmar-on-refugee-return-process-ex-un-chief\/"},"modified":"2017-10-15T06:58:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T06:58:31","slug":"unsc-must-press-myanmar-on-refugee-return-process-ex-un-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/4899-unsc-must-press-myanmar-on-refugee-return-process-ex-un-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"UNSC must press Myanmar on refugee return process: EX-UN chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former UN chief, Kofi Annan, has called on the Security Council (UNSC) to press Myanmar to facilitate the return of over 500,000 Rohingya Muslims, who were forced out of their homeland into Bangladesh amid a government-backed military crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>The former UN chief, Kofi Annan, has called on the Security Council (UNSC) to press Myanmar to facilitate the return of over 500,000 Rohingya Muslims, who were forced out of their homeland into Bangladesh amid a government-backed military crackdown.<\/h4>\n<h4>Annan, who leads a fact-finding commission on Myanmar, told an informal UNSC meeting on Friday that Myanmar\u2019s government must \u201ccreate conditions that allow the refugees to return with dignity.\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4>The Annan-led commission presented in late August a report on the situation in Myanmar\u2019s Rohingya-majority Rakhine State. It called for granting citizenship and other rights to the Rohingya Muslims, who are stateless and have long faced discrimination in the Buddhist-majority state.<\/h4>\n<h4>Annan further said the refugees taking shelter in Bangladeshi border camps needed help to \u201cget their homes back.\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4>He urged the UNSC to agree with Myanmar\u2019s government on a refugee return \u201croadmap,\u201d cautioning that if no action is taken, \u201cwe are going to have a long-term festering problem\u201d in the region that \u201ccan be very serious, down the line.\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4>In the past seven weeks, an estimated 536,000 people have fled their homes in violence-hit Rakhine State and crossed into Bangladesh, amid shocking reports of Myanmar soldiers and Buddhist mobs murdering and raping civilians and torching their villages.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former UN chief, Kofi Annan, has called on the Security Council (UNSC) to press Myanmar to facilitate the return of over 500,000 Rohingya Muslims, who were forced out of their homeland into Bangladesh amid a government-backed military crackdown. \u00a0 The former UN chief, Kofi Annan, has called on the Security Council (UNSC) to press &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1006,205,167,46],"class_list":["post-4899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-kofi-annan","tag-muslim","tag-myanmar","tag-rohingya"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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