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{"id":27024,"date":"2021-02-02T11:05:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T11:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rohingyapost.com\/?p=27024"},"modified":"2021-02-02T11:06:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T11:06:34","slug":"u-n-fears-for-myanmar-rohingya-after-coup-security-council-due-to-meet-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rohingyapost.com\/u-n-fears-for-myanmar-rohingya-after-coup-security-council-due-to-meet-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"U.N. fears for Myanmar Rohingya after coup, Security Council due to meet Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/\">Reuters<\/a>) &#8211; The United Nations fears the coup in Myanmar will worsen the plight of some 600,000 Rohingya Muslims still in the country, a U.N. spokesman said on Monday as the Security Council planned to meet on the latest developments on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Myanmar\u2019s military seized power on Monday in a coup against the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, who was detained along with other political leaders of in early morning raids.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar\u2019s Rakhine State sent more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing into Bangladesh, where they are still stranded in refugee camps. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Western states accused the Myanmar military of ethnic cleansing, which it denied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere are about 600,000 Rohingya those that remain in Rakhine State, including 120,000 people who are effectively confined to camps, they cannot move freely and have extremely limited access to basic health and education services,\u201d U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSo our fear is that the events may make the situation worse for them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 15-member U.N. Security Council plans to discuss Myanmar in a closed meeting on Tuesday, diplomats said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe want to address the long-term threats to peace and security, of course working closely with Myanmar\u2019s Asia and ASEAN neighbors,\u201d Britain\u2019s U.N. Ambassador Barbara Woodward, president of the council for February, told reporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">China, backed by Russia, shielded Myanmar from any significant council action after the 2017 military crackdown. China and Russia are council veto powers along with France, Britain and the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">China\u2019s U.N. mission told Reuters on Monday it hoped to find out more about the latest developments in Myanmar from the Security Council briefing on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt\u2019s also our hope that any move of the Council would be conducive to the stability of Myanmar rather than making the situation more complicated,\u201d a spokesperson for the Chinese U.N. mission said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said the government was in touch with \u201call sides\u201d about the meeting and the international community\u2019s actions should contribute to \u201ca peaceful resolution\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Myanmar army said it had detained Suu Kyi and others in response to \u201celection fraud\u201d, handing power to military chief Min Aung Hlaing and imposing a state of emergency for one year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United Nations called for the release of all those detained, Dujarric said. He said Guterre\u2019s special envoy on Myanmar, Christine Schraner Burgener, \u201cremains actively engaged\u201d and is likely to brief the Security Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United Nations has long had a presence in Myanmar. Security Council envoys traveled there in April 2018 and met separately with Suu Kyi and Min Aung Hlaing following the crackdown on the Rohingya.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"Attribution-attribution-Y5JpY\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (Reuters) &#8211; The United Nations fears the coup in Myanmar will worsen the plight of some 600,000 Rohingya Muslims still in the country, a U.N. spokesman said on Monday as the Security Council planned to meet on the latest developments on Tuesday. 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