UN Security Counil Briefed on the Situation in Myanmar

This article that was published on August 28 summarizes what was discussed during a United Nations Security Council briefing by the UN chief, Mr. Guterres who was joined by actress Cate Blanchett.  This briefing follows, as stated in the article "an independent UN investigation into alleged human rights abuses carried out against the mainly Muslim Rohingya and which called for the country's military leaders to be investigated and prosecuted for genocide and war crimes." (news.un.org).  Guterres had visited refugee camps in Bangladesh in July where he spoke to refugees to understand, from the perspective of the people being persecuted, what the current humanitarian crisis is since the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in June by the UN and Myanmar authorities.
According to Mr. Guterres, no efforts by Myanmar authorities and leaders have been made "in reconstruction, reconciliation and respect for human rights necessary for all communities to live improved and resilient lives in Rakhine state." (news.un.org) In fact, Myanmar officials have been impeding Organizations abilities to help the situation and they have physically impeded journalists from being able to report on the plight of the Rohingya and hold Myanmar leaders accountable by arresting them. As a side note, just a few days ago two reuters journalists were sentenced to seven years in prison.  I hope the international community continues to pay attention to Myanmar and hold its leaders accountable because there is so much human suffering in the world that if one crisis can be rectified then the world stands to benefit.
Photo by UNHCR/ Andrew Mconnell


Link:
The UN article
https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/08/1017952

About the two journalists
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-journalists/myanmar-court-jails-reuters-reporters-for-seven-years-in-landmark-secrets-case-idUSKCN1LJ09E