YANGON: The US labelling of a Myanmar army crackdown on Rohingya Muslims as “ethnic cleansing” is unhelpful and could aggravate the situation, Russia’s ambassador to the South-East Asian nation said, criticising “excessive external intervention”.
The military operation mounted to “ethnic cleansing”, the United States said on Wednesday, echoing an accusation first made by top UN officials in the early days of the humanitarian crisis.
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