‘A moral responsibility to end ethnic cleansing’

Speaking up: Rohingya refugees chanting slogans and holding placards — Reuters

The country’s interim leader, Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus, said there was a “moral responsibility” to end ethnic cleansing of the persecuted Rohingya minority in neighbouring war-torn Myan­mar.

More than a million members of the mostly Muslim people live in refugee camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar region, most of whom arrived after fleeing a 2017 military crackdown in neighbouring Myanmar.