Rights group: International community "in denial" over Rohingya
Government security personnel failed to stop Buddhist Rakhine people from attacking Rohingya communities in June in the westcoast’s Rakhine State and participated in some of the atrocities, the New York-based human rights group said.
"Security forces were responsible for the killing of numerous Rohingya in June," it said in a report about the stateless ethnic minority.
The report was based on interviews with 57 Rakhine and Rohingya witnesses to the sectarian violence, set off after three Rohinyas were accused in the rape and killing of a Rakhine woman on May 28.
The incident sparked the worst sectarian violence witnessed in Myanmar since President Thein Sein came to power in March 2011, ushering in political and economic reforms that have prompted Western democracies to ease sanctions on the former pariah state and encourage investments in the country, which is also known as Burma.
"At the height of the violence in Arakan (Rakhine), President Barack Obama was announcing regulations authorizing US companies to invest in Burma," said Phil Robertson, deputy director of the rights group’s Asia division.
"The international community seems to be blinded by a romantic narrative of sweeping change in Burma, signing new trade deals and lifting sanctions even while the atrocities continue," Robertson said.//DPA
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