Attacks on Rohingya Muslims appear to be continuing in Myanmar and it is not yet safe for the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh to begin returning to their homes, a high-ranking United Nations official said. Many Rohingya want to return eventually to their villages in Myanmar, said Justin Forsyth, UNICEF deputy executive director, during a Wednesday visit to the immense Kutupalong refugee camp. “The situation isn’t safe for the returns to begin,” he said. “I spoke to one young woman, who had been on the phone to her aunt, in Rakhine in Myanmar. And they were attacking villages even today.”More than 680,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar’s Rakhine state beginning in August, after Myanmar security forces began attacking their villages in the wake of attacks by Rohingya insurgents on police posts.

Source: Egypt Independent January 25, 2018 06:56 UTC