Arakan News Agency
The United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency session on the crisis of the Rohingya Muslims in the western province of Arakan, who fled to Bangladesh, Britain’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Matthew Rycroft, said on Monday.
“The meeting is a sign of the Council members’ concern about the fate of the Rohingyas who are fleeing from Myanmar to Bangladesh,” the ambassador said in a press release from the organization’s headquarters in New York City.
Rycroft pointed out that it was not yet decided whether the meeting will be open to journalists or closed, and that a decision in this regard is subject to the presidency of the work of the Council, he says.
Since August 25, the Myanmar army and Buddhist militias have committed genocide against the Rohingya Muslims in Arakan province in western Myanmar.
