Jewish Telegraphic Agency: "Israel Maintains Warm Ties With Myanmar, Downplaying Human Rights "
Updated: Feb 12, 2019
YANGON, Myanmar (JTA) — Myanmar’s treatment of its Rohingya Muslim minority has earned the country widespread condemnation in recent years. A United Nations investigator and the U.S. House of Representatives have warned that the Myanmar military’s recent ramping up of violence against the group constitutes genocide.
Last August, the U.S. State Department tallied atrocities in the Buddhist-majority country’s northern Rakhine State, concluding that violence there was “extreme, large-scale, widespread, and seems geared toward both terrorizing the population and driving out the Rohingya residents.” Some 1.1 million Rohingya have fled Myanmar.
Despite the widespread condemnation, however, Israel remains on friendly terms with Myanmar and has remained relatively silent on what even the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has called “compelling evidence” of genocide in the country that straddles South and Southeast Asia.
Syndicated by Haaretz: https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/asia-and-australia/israel-retains-warm-ties-with-myanmar-despite-human-rights-issues-1.6911752?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Syndicated by The Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-maintains-warm-ties-with-myanmar-downplaying-a-human-rights-controversy/