Rohingya Minority: Fellow Holders and Neighbouring Bangladesh

rohingya minority: But she's no Nelson Mandela either, and that has deeply disappointed some people including fellow holders of the Nobel Peace Prize who expected better of her, according to Hamilton Spectator. The issue that most upsets them is her refusal to take a firm stand on the mistreatment of the Rohingya minority, Muslims of Bengali descent who live in Rakhine state in southwestern Burma. Fair enough she has a country to run, and an army to hold at bay. Since an outbreak of communal violence between Buddhists and Muslims in the state in 2013, the army has treated the Rohingyas with great brutality, and at least a hundred thousand have fled into neighbouring Bangladesh for safety. I think ethnic cleansing is too strong an expression to use for what is happening, she said in the BBC interview, and a new wave of foreign outrage swept over her. The repression has been particularly bad in the past year, with many Rohingyas in the northern part of the state raped or murdered by the army, and foreign critics have begun to describe the events in Rakhine state as ethnic cleansing. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.