Myanmar must be held to account – or the world will look powerless against Rohingya persecution

By Amnesty International

By Amnesty International’s Myanmar Researcher Joe Freeman. (This article was originally published in The Independent) In 2018, when I worked as a journalist, I took part in one of many government-guided tours in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state, the heartland of the country’s Rohingya people. These trips were organised in the aftermath of the Rohingya refugee […] The post Myanmar must be held to account – or the world will look powerless against Rohingya persecution appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>

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