The United Nations General Assembly has approved a resolution strongly condemning human rights abuses against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims and other minorities, including arbitrary arrests, torture, rape and deaths in detention.
The plight of Myanmar's Rohingya refugees, a Muslim ethnic minority group rendered stateless in their homeland and detained in transit nations, is desperately bleak.It reiterated"deep distress at reports that unarmed individuals in Rakhine state have been and continue to be subjected to the excessive use of forces and violations of international human rights law, international humanitarian law by the military and security and armed forces.
And it called for Myanmar's forces to protect all people, and for urgent steps to ensure justice for all rights violations. The resolution also urged the Government"to expedite efforts to eliminate statelessness and the systematic and institutionalised discrimination" against the Rohingya and other minorities, to dismantle camps for Rohingyas and others displaced in Rakhine, and"to create the conditions necessary for the safe, voluntary, dignified and sustainable return of all refugees, including Rohingya Muslim refugees.
It noted that the Rohingya have twice refused to return to Myanmar from Bangladesh because of the absence of these conditions.
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