UK Calls to Stop the Violence in Myanmar

• 09.28.2017, 11:21
•  Europe,  World

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The UK has warned Myanmar that the Rohingya crisis is an "unacceptable tragedy" and Aung San Suu Kyi’s government must end the violence and lift a blockade on humanitarian aid, The Guardian reports.

 "What we have seen in Rakhine in the past few weeks is an absolute and unacceptable tragedy," Mark Field, Britain’s minister for Asia, said.

"We need the violence to stop and all those who have fled to be able to return to their homes quickly and safely," he said. "Burma has taken great strides forward in recent years. But the ongoing violence and humanitarian crisis in Rakhine risks derailing that progress," he added of the ex-British colony.