Rohingya People: Health Care and York Times

rohingya people: There was the warning this week from the United Nations human rights chief, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, that Burma's military appears to have committed acts of genocide against the Rohingya people, according to Toronto Star. There was the warning last weekend in The New York Times from journalist Nicholas Kristof, who has just visited the country. But like the endless Syrian civil war, this is a deepening crisis of historic proportions to which much of the world now seems largely indifferent in spite of the warnings. I saw a genocide in slow motion, was the headline, as the military continues to kill its Rohingya by denying them health care and food. Article Continued Below In the past six months, more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Buddhist-majority Burma also known as Myanmar for Bangladesh to avoid what the UN describes as a classic case of ethnic cleansing by the Burmese military including the burning of villages and raping of women. And there was the warning last month from Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2003, that Aung San Suu Kyi, also a Nobel laureate and Burma's discredited de facto leader, must be held personally responsible for genocide of Rohingyas under her watch. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.