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UN Pushes Myanmar To Release Detained Rohingya Children

April 9, 2017
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The UN children’s agency UNICEF has called on Myanmar’s government to release Rohingya children detained as part of a sweeping military campaign in Rakhine state.

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More than 600 people were arrested in an army crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in the north of the restive state. The operation was launched after deadly attacks by militants on police posts in October.

Rohingya escapees in neighbouring Bangladesh, where more than 70,000 have fled, gave UN investigators accounts of beatings, torture and food deprivation inside the jails.

Minors are among those detained.

UNICEF’s deputy executive director Justin Forsyth said he had given the country’s de facto civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi details of around a dozen youngsters being held in Buthidaung prison.

“There are some children that are detained in prison, so those are the cases that we’re raising,” he told AFP late on Saturday at the end of a brief trip to Myanmar.

“Any child that’s detained is an issue for us.”

Nobel Laureate Suu Kyi and Myanmar’s army chief both recognised “that there’s an issue here” but made no firm committment for their release, he added.

Government spokesman Zaw Htay declined to comment when contacted by AFP on Sunday.

The UN Human Rights Council has agreed to send a mission to Myanmar to probe allegations that troops and police raped, killed and tortured Rohingya in their months-long campaign.

Myanmar has rejected the accounts collected by UN investigators in the Bangladesh refugee camps, who said the crimes could amount to ethnic cleansing.

“I think ethnic cleansing is too strong an expression to use for what is happening,” Suu Kyi said in an interview with the BBC last week.

Myanmar’s police and the military have both launched separate probes to investigate the deaths of at least eight people in custody in northern Rakhine.

UN rights envoy for Myanmar Yanghee Lee said some 450 people were being held in Buthidaung prison when she visited in January, most without access to lawyers or their families.

Myanmar has long faced criticism for its treatment of more than one million Rohingya, who are vilified as illegal “Bengali” immigrants and forced to live in apartheid-like conditions even though many have lived in the country for generations.

A group calling itself the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army has claimed the October attacks, which it said were intended to defend the rights of the persecuted minority after years of worsening conditions.

Forsyth said there was a growing recognition among both Myanmar’s civilian government and army that depriving Rohingya children of opportunities had bred militancy.

“The reality is if you don’t address these issues particularly for these communities then it will come back to haunt them, which is partly what has happened,” he said.

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