The United Kingdom urged Myanmar's military Thursday to extend its recently announced cease-fire to include the escalating conflict in northern Rakhine and Chin states where civilians are suffering a heavy toll at the time of the coronavirus pandemic.
TANZANIA, TANZANIA -- The U.K. Mission to the United Nations made the appeal after a closed meeting of the UN Security Council that it called because of growing concern about fighting in the two states between government forces and the Arakan Army, a well-armed guerrilla force representing the Buddhist Rakhine minority.
But four European Union council members -- Estonia, Belgium, France and Germany -- and former council member Poland also expressed concern about the military escalation in Rakhine and Chin states and called for "an immediate, comprehensive and nationwide cease-fire." Lee linked the current situation in Rakhine and Chin to the government's actions against the Rohingya, for which no senior officers have faced justice and token punishments were given to a handful of low-ranking security personnel.
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