The United Nations Security Council convene a special meeting with regard to the violence against the Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will meet at a special meeting convened on the occasion of the bloodshed in Myanmar.

Sweden and the UK have proposed to convene a special UNSC meeting due to the growing concern of the international community with regard to the ongoing violence against the minority Rohingya Muslim community in Myanmar, which lasts already three weeks.

UNSC has already held a closed session at the end of August in order to discuss what is happening in Myanmar. However, it did not issued an official statement after that meeting.

According to the representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations Matthew Rycroft the convocation of an extraordinary meeting is indicative of the concern of the UN member states with regard to the situation in Myanmar, which continues to worsen for many Rohingya who continue to leave Myanmar towards Bangladesh.

So far nearly 313 000 representatives of the minority Muslim Rohingya community have gone as refugees to neighboring Bangladesh which is about 1/3 of their total number of 1.1 million people.

Author: L. Chausheva

Photo: AFP