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Rohingya Activist Urges US to Ramp Up Pressure on Myanmar

Mohammad Hussain

   The United States should increase pressure on Myanmar to end
   persecution of ethnic minorities and restore the citizenship rights of
   hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims driven from that country by
   government-sanctioned violence, said a Rohingya political activist
   visiting Washington last week.

   Tun Khin, president of the London-based [1]Myanmar Rohingya Association
   UK, lauded the [2]U.S. government as "a champion for the refugees'
   humanitarian aid"

   ]] and its sanctions against several Myanmar military leaders for
   alleged rights abuses. But he also encouraged Washington to back the
   tiny African country of Gambia in its genocide case against Myanmar in
   the International Court of Justice (ICJ)."

   We need more powerful countries to join with Gambia to move forward
   this case," Tun Khin said in an interview Thursday with VOA.

References

   1. https://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/documents/1866/burma_cr_fs02_01-15-2020.pdf
   2. https://www.usaid.gov/crisis/burma-bangladesh

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