The United Nations General Assembly has called on Myanmar to halt its military campaign against Rohingya Muslims.
\nOn Sunday, a resolution forwarded by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) was adopted by a vote of 122 to 10 with 24 abstentions.
\nIt calls for Myanmar to grant aid workers access and to give Rohingya Muslims full citizenship rights.
\nThe resolution also calls on UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to assign a special envoy to the country.
\nChina, Russia, Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar, Belarus, Syria and Zimbabwe voted against the resolution.
\nBacked by Myanmar\u2019s government and Buddhist majority, the military launched yet another heavy-handed crackdown against the Muslim minority in Rakhine State on August 25, using a number of armed attacks on military posts as the pretext.
\nOver that past three months, government troops, apart from raping, have been committing killings, making arbitrary arrests, and carrying out mass arson attacks to destroy houses in predominantly-Rohingya villages in Rakhine.
\nOnly in its first month, the clampdown, called by the UN and prominent rights group an \u201cethnic cleansing campaign,\u201d killed some 6,700 Rohingya Muslims, including more than 700 children, according to Doctors Without Borders.
\nMore than 655,000 Rohingya Muslims have so far fled the predominantly-Buddhist Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh since then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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