China official says of Rohingya crisis foreign interference doesn't work


  • World
  • Saturday, 21 Oct 2017

Rohingya refugees queue in the rain to receive food at Kotupalang refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh October 20, 2017. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

BEIJING (Reuters) - Experience shows that foreign interference in crises does not work and China supports the Myanmar government's efforts to protect stability, a senior Chinese official said on Saturday, amid ongoing violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

More than 500,000 Muslim Rohingya have fled across the border to Bangladesh following a counter-insurgency offensive by Myanmar's army in the wake of militant attacks on security forces.

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