UN council heads to B’desh, Myanmar to see Rohingya

The Security Council is heading to Asia for a firsthand look at the plight of 7,00,000 Rohingya Muslims who fled a military crackdown in Myanmar and the several hundred thousand who remain in the country’s northern Rakhine State.

Britain’s UN ambassador, Karen Pierce, said the most important thing is that the body charged with maintaining international peace and security “can see for itself the situation on the ground in a very desperate case of alleged human rights violations and abuses and crimes against humanity.”